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Veterans Administration Bureaucrat Carl T. Noll, with his Dachau common-grave mentality, may have backed off at Grafton National Cemetery [July 21], but I am still disturbed that there may be similar exhumations to come elsewhere. When can we expect the arrival of his bulldozers and plastic urns at Gettysburg and Petersburg, where my two greatgrandfathers lie in honor...
Congress could shake up the bureaucracy, says Peters, but it has too much of a stake in the status quo. "The more bureaucrats do wrong to the public," writes Peters, "the more favors Congressmen can do for their constituents as they right the wrongs-or as they appear to try to right them." They may not actually help, but they can always denounce the offending bureaucrat on the floor of Congress and then send a copy of their remarks to their constituents...
...these tough, hard-working old leaders is exceptionally robust. Brezhnev, at 73, suffers from several illnesses, including arteriosclerosis. Alexei Kosygin, 76, has had two heart attacks. Dmitri Ustinov, 71, is currently ailing. "When Brezhnev dies the rest of the Politburo will be gone with the wind," says one Soviet bureaucrat...
...does it serve the Soviet people?' He'll probably begin to think, 'I'm afraid. I'm worried.' " He should be, for he will share the blame with the film's creators if something offends someone further up the line -a cultural bureaucrat in one of the republics, or perhaps even the Central Committee in Moscow. Like Stalin before him, Brezhnev has been known to enter these debates. He once got a movie shelved simply by inquiring after a screening, "Who needs...
Paperwork done by teachers and administrators for district, state and national agencies proliferates geometrically. Though it all may be necessary to some distant bureaucrat-a most unlikely circumstance-when teachers comply they tend to feel like spindling, folding and mutilating all the forms. Paperwork wastes an enormous amount of teaching time. In Atlanta, for example, fourth-and fifth-grade teachers must evaluate their students on 60 separate skills. The children must be rated on everything from whether they can express "written ideas clearly" to whether they can apply "scarcity, opportunity cost and resource allocation to local, national and global situations...