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Reporters promptly cornered the mayor, who proved no fan of the state liquor authority crackdown. "It's archaic, it's arcane, it's stupid," Koch fumed. "It'll raise the price of dinner. You like to get a little bargain now and then. I mean, that's what life is all about." Koch suggested that the SLA suspend its directive...
...boom in phony card charges is partly due to a crackdown on another type of telephone abuse. For years operators seldom asked questions when travelers charged long-distance calls to their home phones. But so many calls were being billed to unwary customers that operators now usually phone a person at the number given to get approval. Says Scott Smith, a spokesman for San Francisco-based Pacific Bell: "Credit cards are becoming the sole source of telephone fraud...
...differences between Lebanon and Israel stood out sharply, however. Within 24 hours after the West Bank shooting, Israeli security forces had begun a crackdown on one of the country's most disturbing phenomena, the rise of Jewish terrorism. Members of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, arrested seven U.S. citizens and subsequently detained four of them on suspicion of complicity in the attack on the Palestinian laborers. The four detainees were later identified as active members of the ultra-nationalist Kach movement, led by Meir Kahane, founder of the U.S.-based Jewish Defense League. In another...
...killings and a crackdown...
...Government's crackdown seems to be getting results. National, at least, has reformed its testing procedures. Though it was temporarily suspended as a military supplier in 1982, the firm this year expects to sell the Pentagon $75 million worth of weapons parts, or about 8% of total sales. Said National President Charles Sporck: "We now follow every dot and every dash of every military specification." The Pentagon hopes its prosecution of National will persuade other contractors to be no less careful...