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...Farmers contend that consumers do not realize what a good deal they have. Though food prices have undeniably risen, they have not kept pace over the past five years or so with the jump in the cost of health care or housing or a variety of other goods and services that...
...complex in Washington last June. Directed and financed by officials of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, this operation has been adjudged by courts to be a clear-cut crime. After two weeks of hearings on the Gray nomination, most Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee contend the testimony indicates that Gray...
Gray's critics on the committee contend that his political favoritism is demonstrated by the close manner in which he worked on the investigation with one of Nixon's top legal aides, Presidential Counsel John W. Dean III. Gray readily admits having transmitted to Dean more than 80 FBI reports on the probe, including accounts of illegally monitored telephone conversations at the Democratic headquarters. Gray even allowed Dean to sit in on FBI interviews with White House aides suspected of involvement in the Watergate affair or other political sabotage. The Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to call Dean to testify about...
...Protestants from colleges and universities in the South, Midwest and West. Catholics usually come from Fordham, Boston College and similar sectarian institutions; Ivy League universities have only token representation in the bureau. Under J. Edgar Hoover, only a few Jews made the ranks of the FBI. Old Hoover supporters contend that the director distrusted Jews not because of their religion but because of their supposed liberalism. Today only about 120 agents are black, Spanish-surnamed or Oriental, and two are women...
...modest amount of new funds, of which, the administration say, none are available. And this is the crux of the issue: so long as there is no more money available, no plan for financing graduate education will be entirely satisfactory. There is, however, a middle ground, and graduate students contend that the Kraus Plan does not occupy this position...