Word: levi
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...past year and a half, the U.S. intelligence community has taken a number of steps to correct its faults. The CIA has severely limited its activities at home. U.S. Attorney General Edward Levi has laid down some strict ground rules for the FBI. Even so, the Senate committee was unappeased. It recommended 96 steps to make sure that the domestic intelligence apparatus would concern itself only with the legitimate goals of catching spies and stopping crime, including acts of terrorism...
...have tried out the system, which costs about $60 per installation plus a $60 monthly rental fee, have been able to cut copying costs by as much as 50%. The University of San Francisco found some professors were duplicating whole books instead of buying them. Some employers, among them Levi Strauss, use the system primarily to monitor depart-ment-by-department copying costs, but Leopold sees it mainly as a money saver. Says he: "Companies don't leave the petty-cash box sitting in the lobby, but each time the copier is used, it takes another nickel...
...fissionable material necessary for an Abomb. Ben-Gurion and Shimon Peres, then Deputy Defense Minister and currently Israel's Defense Minister, favored doing so. Others, including Mrs. Meir and Yigal Allon, now Israel's Foreign Minister, initially opposed the project. So did Ben-Gurion's successor as Premier, Levi Eshkol. The Israeli equivalent of the U.S. National Security Council vetoed the separation-plant project in early 1968. Shortly afterward, Eshkol discovered that Dayan ?in the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War ?had secretly ordered the start of construction on an S.P. Eshkol and his advisers felt that...
...Satisfied and vindicated" was the way Political Columnist Joseph Kraft described himself last week. After years of protesting illegal wiretaps on his Georgetown home, Kraft was finally given assurances from Attorney General Edward Levi that his FBI files would be destroyed, and that such taps "would not be authorized" any longer by the Justice Department. Kraft had first learned of the bugs back in 1973; after gaining access to his FBI dossier recently, he learned even more. During a trip to Paris by the journalist back in 1969, FBI agents arranged for a bug in his room at the George...
...panel to probe the damaging issue of foreign bribery by U.S. companies (TIME cover, Feb. 23). The Task Force on Questionable Corporate Payments Abroad-the Administration never mentioned the word bribery in announcing it-includes Cabinet Members Henry Kissinger, William Simon, Donald Rumsfeld and Edward Levi along with Richardson and five other top-flight Presidential Counsellors. It is supposed to study how extensive corporate bribery has been and what can be done to stop it; its final recommendations are due by year...