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...Pentagon plans to hold to its rulebook. The presence of homosexuals in the service, it argues, could impair recruitment; other young men might feel anxious about living in close quarters with them. In addition, Defense Department officials contend, homosexuals cannot command respect as officers or noncoms and are prey to blackmailers. Replies Matlovich, who had top-secret clearance in the 1960s while working as an electrician on Minutemen ICBM silos: "Who's going to blackmail...
Some hope still exists that Congress and the White House can get together on energy policy, but it is barely a flicker. Democrats contend that Ford's strategy of raising prices is the wrong way to force oil conservation, but they cannot agree on any approach of their own. A bill that the White House described as a "marshmallow" finally squeaked through the House Ways and Means Committee before the recess. It would, among other things, raise the federal tax on gasoline from its present 4? to 7? next January, tax business use of petroleum, and levy...
...over Viet Nam policy just because I disagreed with it? My main responsibility and my principal interest was Western Europe." Yet Ball was the No. 2 man in the State Department. If he and others in powerful positions had made a public issue over their opposition, Franck and Weisband contend, the antiwar movement might not have had to take its case into the streets...
...mammoth IBM antitrust suit. The largest such case ever to go to trial in the U.S. finally got under way in a New York federal district court last week, even bringing the usually officebound IBM chairman Frank T. Gary in to watch the opening session. Already, critics contend that the main thing the trial will prove is that the antitrust laws have become so complex to enforce in a modern economy that they are of little use in curbing business giantism...
Many prosecutors contend that civil actions of the kind brought against Equitable are ineffective. Joseph D'Alessandro, state attorney in Fort Myers, says the companies involved "just take off one hat and put on another." Last July the Securities and Exchange Commission forced Homestate to stop selling notes, but within a few days, three of Homestate's officers had opened new securities-sales companies. Apparently the authorities will use more forceful tactics now. At week's end they were preparing criminal prosecutions in both West Palm Beach and Fort Myers...