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...officials of the United Mine Workers were found in breach of fiduciary trust for allowing millions in assets to languish in a mine-controlled bank. The D.C. Transit Co. invested $2 million owed to its workers' pension fund to finance its own real estate. Javits' bill would compel fund managers to buy insurance against defaults or bankruptcies...
...social points at stake for more than eight months. The result last week was an 8,000-word policy statement that spelled out once again the President's conservative philosophy: the Executive Branch should move no further nor faster in the area of civil rights than the courts compel. Thus while Nixon vowed to enforce vigorously legislation and Supreme Court rulings already on the books, he chose to interpret those laws narrowly. He carved out careful distinctions between racial and economic discrimination and shifted the initiative for fair-housing regulation from the Federal Government to local communities...
...Radcliffe senior had made eight harassing phone calls between 12:50 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. which the telephone company had traced to the defendant's phone. The report explained that "the Committee was unable to determine responsibility for the phone harassment" because "the CRR has no power to compel testimony under 'cress examination...
...loyal supporter of Administration military policies, introduced a resolution that would curtail presidential power to make future wars. After years of objecting to the heavy U.S. troop commitment in Europe, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield took decisive action: he introduced an amendment to the draft bill that would compel the Administration to reduce American forces in NATO by one-half...
...rigid, as indeed they have. The Israelis feel that the Americans, particularly Rogers and his State Department, are so anxious to restore U.S. influence in the Arab world that they are willing to impose unacceptable risks on Israel. Golda Meir's government maintains that its policy of tenacity will compel the Arabs to come around eventually if only the U.S. and other major powers would quit meddling. "For God's sake," pleads a top Israeli diplomat, "let us bargain with the Egyptians. Don't force us into things...