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...Mafia scheme to harvest payoffs and kickbacks from the multimillion-dollar welfare funds of the Teamsters Union, which has become Nixon's closest political ally in organized labor. In a decision protested by department officials, Petersen ruled that there was "insufficient" cause to continue the wiretaps. His edict stopped the eavesdropping after FBI agents discovered that Los Angeles gangsters seeking to tap the union welfare fund had met in Palm Springs on February 8 with Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons...
However, there are certain legal and moral questions that are raised. One asks if a mother who is not willing to abort should be allowed or convined to undergo amniocentesis. If the procedure becomes very common, the discovery of a handicapped child could easily amount to an edict for abortion. The race-linkage of some defects makes members of those races understandably concerned lest amniocentesis become a potent tool of genocide in the hands of a profession dominated by white upper-class anglo-Americans...
Kyle's announcement was unethical and represented an attempt to abridge the community's right to be informed on an important issue. She deliberately waited until the meeting was underway to preclude discussion of her edict. Her employment of journalistic jargon was a clumsy effort to mask an attempted intimidation of the representatives of the press present...
Although the trustees' edict gave liability for the operation of services related to medical care to B.U., the school may subcontract Harvard and Tufts to help meet its responsibility...
...paper the Federal Communications Commission's 1970 rule sounded, like an edict of Solon, wise beyond quibble. During the four hours of prime TV time from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. (E.S.T.), the networks would be allowed only three hours, with the remaining time reserved for local stations. The local stations would be forced to come up with their own programming, the FCC reasoned, and hitherto untapped creative energies would be released. Said Commissioner Nicholas Johnson when the rule was announced: "I think television ought to be like a typewriter that's available to everyone...