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...Federal agencies have 3.8 billion personal records in 6,753 categories from passport applications to Social Security accounts- an average of 18 files for every citizen. State and local agencies maintain at least as many records, while private organizations store three times the federal total. The nation's largest credit bureau, TRW Credit Data of Anaheim, Calif, keeps records on 55 million people. The biggest private investigator, Atlanta-based Equifax, Inc has files on some 60 million people and annually churns out about 30 million background checks- consisting mostly of details on people's health, work his tory...
...prognosis is grim for new talks on restraints. Until now the TGWU's adherence to the contract had discouraged other unions from breaking the wage-restraint agreement. With 1.9 million members, the TGWU is the largest single union within the umbrella-like Trades Union Congress, which ostensibly represents organized labor in Britain. Now other major unions are demanding release from the agreement. At the mine workers' union convention in Tynemouth last week, delegates representing 262,000 members voted to demand raises by Nov. 1. The 1.3 million-member engineers' union has also voted against further wage restraints...
Expanding Bureaucracy. The largest chunk of the money is still spent on training and terrorist operations; last week a Palestinian bomb went off near Tel Aviv, killing one person and wounding 26. One of the smaller and poorer fedayeen groups, the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, took credit for the incident. But an increasing percentage of the revenues pay for a rapidly expanding bureaucracy. The P.L.O. has opened offices-in effect, quasi embassies-in about 100 nations. Heads of the larger offices in Europe and North America receive around $1,500 a month along with "representation" allowances...
...police to six sites near the California-Mexico border where, authorities said, "he may have disposed of bodies." At week's end, police had recovered twelve, and said that Kearney and Hill might be responsible in all for 28 or more killings, which would make the case the largest mass murder in American history. Says Lieut. Edward Douglas of the Los Angeles sheriffs department: "I don't know if we'll ever know the total, because some bodies may be beyond recovery...
...successor. The real center is the Holy Church. If they ask us what is our future, then we say, 'Our future is our past.' " With that, he ordained-against Vatican orders -14 priests and 16 subdeacons, an act that could start the century's largest Roman Catholic schism...