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Though Attorney General John Mitchell ruled last summer that the Philadelphia Plan's "goals" did not amount to illegal job quotas, Comptroller General Elmer Staats issued a contrary opinion. Taking advantage of that split, the Senate two weeks ago added to an appropriations bill an amendment that would forbid the Government to make payments on any contract the Comptroller General holds to be against...
...before elections, Tho told Schecter, no party should be "in a position to exert pressure on the population and oblige it to adopt a given political regime." For what it is worth, Tho promised to free political prisoners, presumably meaning pacifists jailed by the present Saigon regime, and to "forbid" terrorism or acts of revenge against those who had joined either side. Just how Tho-or anyone else-would guarantee that the elections would be genuinely free and that there would be no reprisals was left unexplained...
...subcommittee could forbid the students involved to take exams, revoke their bursars cards or conceivably require them to vacate their University rooms...
Brooks said in late September that he "couldn't imagine." the subcommittee's recommending that Harvard forbid its professors and students from having anything to do with the Project...
...Senate-House conference committee this week approved a military procurement bill containing the so-called "Fulbright Amendment," which the Arkansas Senator introduced to forbid any Defense Department grant which does not have "a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function or operation." Final approval of the bill is expected to be routine...