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Boycotts are a drag. You're tired of them, just as the farm workers are tired of striking (and all that goes with it). But the workers will not be reduced to chattel again. Least of all Teamster chattel. Cesar Chavez asks consumers to unite as never before. No less will cause the growers to grant workers the simple right to vote, by secret ballot, on the union to represent them: the UFW or the Teamsters...
...dubbed to add, delete or transpose dialogue, and then retaped, the relative age of the tape can be analyzed. So can the precise acoustics, including inaudible frequencies, so that the exact room setting and microphone placement of any new taping would have to duplicate those of the original. To drag even more conspirators into the Watergate cover-up in an effort to accomplish such slick editing would seem unlikely and dangerous indeed...
...nation's first peacetime gasoline shortages. Last week the Federal Trade Commission filed a massive antitrust complaint, charging the nation's eight largest oil companies with illegally monopolizing refining, driving competitors out of business, aggravating recent gasoline scarcities and reaping excessive profits. The complaint may drag through courts and hearing rooms for years, but it could lead to the most significant restructuring of the industry since the trustbusters cracked Standard...
...primary day, Nardelli had 50 pullers in the projects working to drag out the reluctant voters. Utilizing his election district captains, number runners, high school kids and gyps cap drivers, Nardelli managed to produce a 40 per cent turnout in his area with 92 per cent of that vote going to Badillo. No district leader in the city did that well...
...wouldn't mind Agnew as President. I also probably wouldn't mind if Nixon were impeached....The Watergate affair will probably drag on, with a decline of confidence in the Administration and with a guerrilla war between Congress and the Administration....Watergate is oddly different from other scandals in the past. There is little evidence of venality....The point, which is really a question, is whether our culture sustains any shared values too sacred to be compromised -- any shared standards of behavior, violations of which simply will not be tolerated...