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...report also recommended a number of changes that would tighten internal controls over employees. Among them were proposals to add a second deputy director for administration and to expand the role of the CIA's inspector general to include investigation of reports by employees that the agency was violating...
...much room for improvement. Only 2% of Southern officeholders are black, and 2.5 million eligible blacks remain unregistered. Less than half the eligible Spanish-surnamed Americans in the Southwest are signed up at the polls. Last week, the House voted to extend the act another ten years and expand its provisions. Literacy tests would be banned nationwide; Texas and the parts of states with large Spanish-speaking populations would fall under the law, as would all of Alaska, many of whose natives speak no English; Asians in Hawaii and American Indians would be protected. The House bill is expected...
...power companies boost their rates. New issues of stock in utility companies became almost impossible to sell after New York's Consolidated Edison omitted its 45?-per-share dividend for the second quarter of 1974. To raise the capital that it constantly needs to maintain and expand power grids, the industry had to borrow at interest rates as high as 12% on bond issues and bank loans...
...Middle East. Cruisers bristling with missiles and advanced communications equipment put in regularly at Alexandria; Latakia, Syria; Berbera and Mogadishu, Somalia; and the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean. Though Moscow and Tripoli deny it, Middle East watchers expect the Soviets to soon expand to some prime Libyan military bases in exchange for the weapons deal just concluded...
...conduct a banking or S and L business and obtained an injunction that shut down the system for six months of 1974. But last month the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that the stores were not really acting as S and L branches. The ruling not only lets First Federal expand its system but sets a precedent that should encourage S and Ls in other states to put terminals in supermarkets and other stores. Already, two other Nebraska S and Ls have joined the First Federal network, which now operates in 21 Hinky Dinky stores...