Word: fear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after President Carter took office in January 1977, he canceled the SR-71 flights over Cuba as part of a general policy of cutting back intelligence operations. The flights were not resumed until November 1978, when American intelligence began to fear that the Soviet MiG-23s stationed in Cuba might be capable of carrying nuclear weapons. But satellite and SR-71 photos did not clear up the matter. It took HUMINT to do the job. An agent with access to the MiG airfield was sent in to take a snapshot of a friend who just happened to be standing...
Midst mourning for Mountbatten, fear of renewed terrorism...
That is not sufficient for New York Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal, chairman of a Government operations subcommittee, who believes the IRS report underestimated the size of the underground economy by $100 billion to $200 billion. He wants tougher auditing of tax returns, believing that only "fear" will force more people to declare their full income. At present, the IRS audits only 1.8 million individual returns a year, or about 2% of the total. Says the angry Congressman: "The people paying their taxes are being forced to subsidize the rest...
...academic benefits of desegregation are harder to measure. In 1974 a bi-racial school-system committee decided that it did not want to keep track of black vs. white academic progress in St. Petersburg for fear that unfair comparisons would be made. "There is no way to say whether students have benefited from desegregation," says Thomas Tocco, assistant superintendent of the Pinellas school district. "Frankly, I would not even venture a guess...
...representatives say they fear the law, and similar proposals in other states, because it may increase the costs of administering the tests. After all, if the tests are public, the service won't be able to recycle questions, forcing someone to sit down every year to write new analogies. Considering the amount of money "non-profit" ETS clears each year, though, the added costs of questions, mailings and even Xerox copies shouldn't force them out of business. ETS's real fear may be that scrutiny will be to standardized tests as hurricanes are to the Dominican Republic. Public availability...