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...During one of her 18-hour days, Bella unearthed from the House rules an old tactic called a resolution of inquiry, which demands action by the House within the startlingly short span of seven days. Invoking that device, she pushed through the proposal that the President be directed to furnish the Pentagon papers to Congress. She succeeded in getting a sex-discrimination amendment added to the Public Works Acceleration Act. It was vetoed by President Nixon, but is now being redrafted with the Abzug amendment intact. In the recent effort to censure CBS President Frank Stanton, Freshman Abzug wedged...
...Secretary Melvin Laird's ten-day swing through Tokyo and Seoul seemed carefully calculated to be thoroughly unspectacular. Laird's message was the same for both allies: they could count on continued protection from the Seventh Fleet and the U.S. nuclear umbrella, but they would have to furnish "credible deterrence" on the ground themselves. Who could get upset over what amounted to yet another sales pitch for the Nixon Doctrine...
LESSON TWO. Engage the enemy far from your trench line. In the freewheeling 1950s intelligent managements sought to keep their lists of stockholders out of dissidents' hands as long as possible. Rather than use a series of expensive legal obstacles, GAP declined to furnish the challengers with the computer tape of the list and made them copy it by hand...
...they noted that mail to Weatherlady Bernardine Dohrn (A.B. '63, I.D. '67) was being returned as undeliverable. Bernardine, now underground, has made the FBI's most-wanted list, the magazine observed proudly. "We're sure," it added, "that her gratitude to any classmate who can furnish her current mailing address would be unbounded." That sort of information might even pry a contribution out of J. Edgar Hoover (George Washington University...
...will be subjects of preliminary inquiries. This program will include junior colleges and two-year colleges as well as four-year colleges. In connection with this program, there is a need for increased source coverage and we must develop network of discreet quality sources in a position to furnish required information. Bear in mind that absence of information regarding these groups in any area might be the fault of inadequate source coverage and efforts should be undertaken immediately to improve this coverage...