Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jan. 18 cover story reported the sense of desperation in many prisons, but also noted certain hopeful signs of beginning improvement. Last week, as anxiety turned to bloodshed at Attica, members of nine of our domestic bureaus re-examined U.S. prisons for a new cover story on one of the had most gnawing failures. The promise of last winter had not been fulfilled quickly enough...
...Europeans do not bargain the way Texans do. Unpublished sections of a report adopted by the 55-member council of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, meeting in Geneva last week, indicated the danger. The report warned that if the U.S. import surcharge is still in effect by Jan. 1 and prevents the U.S. from carrying out the final phase of tariff cuts agreed to in the Kennedy Round negotiations, GATT nations would be compelled to retaliate -in short, it predicted a trade...
...spending proposals, unless they "completely blew the top off our budget." Just such a threat emerged last week from the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, which voted to reject Nixon's proposed delay in pay raises for federal white collar employees scheduled for Jan. 1. Under federal law, a vote against the measure by either house would frustrate Nixon's hope of reducing the current fiscal budget by $1.3 billion. Because the delay in salary raises is politically unpopular, the job of ramming it through Congress, says House G.O.P. Leader Jerry Ford, "is going...
...troubles at Attica dramatize again the fact that much of the U.S. prison system (TIME cover, Jan. 18) is still inhumane and brutalizes rather than rehabilitates. The ills are not remedied by riots. The public has every reason to be outraged by the beatings, or as in last month's smaller but more violent uprising at San Quentin, the killing of guards. Yet, given the persistence of dehumanizing conditions in so many prisons, it is perhaps lucky that there have not been more Attica-scale rebellions...
...PASADENA, CALIF., Rose Bowl officials stopped selling tickets to the Jan. 1 classic pending a ruling by the Cost of Living Council on whether a proposed price hike from $8 to $10 is legal. Though the game will be played after the freeze expires, Bowl officials want to avoid refunds to early ticket buyers...