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...there could be heard in Washington, if not yet a crash, then at least an ominous clattering sound. Ironically, much of the noise came from Nixon's fellow Republicans. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch, who had taken a drubbing a week earlier in the Knowles affair, found himself forced to compromise his strong stand on school desegregation guidelines. That Nixon decision angered liberals of both parties and blacks, as did the Administration's introduction of a transparently weak voting-rights, proposal. An affirmative House vote on the income tax surcharge extension bill constituted the week...
...obviously been growing heavier. He is now Nixon's chief political-liaison man, replacing John Sears. Once an associate in Nixon's law firm, Sears is a New Yorker who has some rapport with the party's liberal wing. In the White House, however, Sears found that he had only limited access to Nixon and that two far more powerful aides, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, undercut his position. Dent has no such problems. He gets on well with Messrs. H. and E. and sees the President frequently. He is a natural contact man for Southern...
...efficiency expert and auditor at the Pentagon, Fitzgerald has been giving interested Congressmen detailed, inside descriptions of how multibillion-dollar contracts grow between the assignment and delivery dates. Though he has found eager listeners among critics of the military on Capitol Hill, the Pentagon has chosen to treat him as a mildly treasonous pest...
Beaten Back. At first, Fitzgerald saw some progress in checking inefficiency. But by early 1967, he says, "we lost control." He recalls: "We were bringing out too much visibility in the cost of contracts. They [officials charged with procurement] were afraid that if McNamara found out, he'd land all over them." Fitzgerald claims that he spotted the C-5A overrun in 1966, but when he pointed it out to his superiors, he was "beaten back...
...they lead a movement to bring church property under land reform. In Bolivia, they have suggested that workers be granted a voice in their firms and a share in the profits. In Colombia, a priest was killed leading an anti-government guerrilla band. The growing middle class, too, has found its voice, and a strident one: middle-class students are the most vociferous advocates of change, rejecting foreign influence and paternalism and championing "people's rights...