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...Congressman-all Democrats-wrote Nixon a letter in February requesting the meeting and received a reply through a lower echelon White House staff member on April 20 which said...
...their federal subsidies. "Panetta," explained a White House source, "was doing his thing, not the President's thing." The ouster further weakened the position of HEW Secretary Robert Finch, one of the few progressive counterweights to conservative influence on the racial issue in the Administration's top echelon. It also raised the suspicion that Education Commissioner lames E. Allen, another liberal subordinate of Finch's, might soon be forced out. > The Senate, by 56 to 36, passed an amendment-sponsored by Mississippi's John Stennis-that seems to require the North as well as the South...
...farm laborers toiling for 260 a day. Those who have fled to the cities, where they can enjoy urban anonymity, find caste still much in evidence. Though the government is supposed to reserve 12.5% of all its job openings for them, only 2% of New Delhi's top-echelon officials and 3% of its legions of clerks are harijans...
...investigators did not learn what was said in any of these calls, though they requested authorization to tap Dice Dawson's telephone. The Justice Department sought and obtained court permission for taps in other gambling cases last year, but the department's top echelon pigeonholed the request in the Dice Dawson investigation...
...dating back to czarist times. The Chinese were also miffed because the Soviet negotiator, First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, returned to the talks a week later than he had promised. When he arrived in Peking two weeks ago, the Chinese administered an unmistakable snub by sending a second-echelon official to greet him at the airport...