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Democratic Representative Bella Abzug of New York got the file that the CIA had on her, and found that for 22 years, the agency had been maintaining a dossier on some of her activities as lawyer and politician (TIME, March 17). Similarly, the CIA turned over to former Democratic Representative Charles Porter of Oregon 17 items from his file, including a report on his attendance at a 1968 meeting of the Congress of Racial Equality in Oakland, Calif. Asks Porter: "What the hell does that have to do with the CIA? They're treating me like a security risk...
Last week, three days after the USRA had snubbed its plea for a $30 million emergency loan, the debt-ridden Rock Island Line became the first major railroad outside the Northeast since World War II to file for reorganization under the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Rescue operations began almost immediately. To avoid stranding 13,000 commuters, Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority promised to take over service in and out of the city. Meanwhile, the Interstate Commerce Commission summoned representatives from 60 railroads to Washington and indicated that it will dismember the 7,500-mile road. The ice will parcel...
...Cambridge Hospital's association is the first house officer's association to file for certification under the state's new public employees law, which was passed July...
...speaker, Ruth Ryan, who describes her caucus as a "rank and file group" whose goal is to "overthrow the bureaucrats who run the unions," is one of 500 women formerly employed in the General Motors plant in Fremont, California that laid off half of its 5000 workers early this year...
...biographical sketches and by virtue of lingering influence of "old school" women's history. Notable American Women might seem stuffy. But the dictionary is not only an impressive testament to the number of women involved in American public life (1359 women were chosen out of an original 4000-name file); it is also a fascinating revelation, through the life-stories of individual women, of the range of activities that were permitted to American women, and how these women responded to them...