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...code of conduct accompanying the raises would severely curtail outside earned income, such as legal and directors' fees and honorariums for speeches. It would require complete financial disclosure of all income, gifts, debts and personal holdings. Strict conflict-of-interest standards would be applied. Restrictions would be placed on the kinds of jobs that people could take when leaving Government. The report urges abolition of "revolving-door arrangements through which company executives, Government regulators and contract negotiators pass freely, changing hats or uniforms as they go, doing damage to public respect for Government...
Coburn said that in order to curtail the Fogg's expenses in the future, the museum staff "will have to think long in advance and make plans...
Advocating "quiet diplomacy," Ford is willing to authorize secret negotiations when he thinks they are necessary and occasional CIA covert operations. He also argues that any U.S. action concerning internal repression in such countries as Iran and South Korea is best advanced "quietly" rather than by public threats to curtail aid or trade. Drawing a distinction between morality and moralizing, Kissinger noted last week that a key test of morality is "what we are able to implement," adding that the Administration has secured the release of "hundreds of prisoners throughout the world" without publicity...
...Leviathan. There is almost no quarrel with the generous benefits of the cradle-to-grave welfare cocoon created by the Social Democrats. But Swedes have been increasingly concerned that the ever growing concentration of state power and the extension of bureaucracy into private life have already begun to curtail individual rights and liberties (TIME, July 19). Frequently cited as an example of the increasing arbitrariness of the bureaucracy was the harassment of Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman by Swedish tax authorities, which drove him abroad into self-imposed exile earlier this year...
...drive to achieve nationwide circulation forced the University to subsidize the magazine. But the operating deficit which resulted from the drive prompted Harvard to reduce the subsidy and to suggest that the magazine curtail its national promotion. Of the 40,000 current Harvard Magazine subscribers, "about 20,000 are non-Harvard affiliates, Bethell said...