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...secretly recorded conversations from the Nixon presidency. Ford was widely criticized for what seemed extreme kindness toward the man who had elevated him. But last week Ford's Justice Department did its best to take back that gift. In a 100-page brief approved by Attorney General Edward Levi and White House Counsel Philip Buchen, the Administration defended the right of Congress to nullify that Nixon-Ford agreement on the tapes and papers...
...heart of a growing morale problem among the bureau's 8,000 special agents. Increasingly, as their activities are scrutinized by investigators from Congress and the Justice Department, agents feel that they have been abandoned by their superiors. The agents are particularly apprehensive about Attorney General Edward Levi's continuing efforts to put tighter controls on FBI investigations. Levi has slashed the agency's requested 1976 budget increase for counterespionage activities from $11 million to $4.4 million, opened up certain secret files to congressional probers, and criticized past FBI excesses as "foolish and sometimes outrageous...
...bars for writers, artists, blacks, collegians, businessmen, middle-class women, "drag queens," transsexuals, male prostitutes and sadomasochists. At the Eagle, an s. and m. bar on Manhattan's Lower West Side, the uptown "Bloomingdale's crowd" is derided by a tightly packed throng of men in leather and Levi's. They come by subway or taxi rather than motorcycle, but they often wear motorcycle outfits, chains, handcuffs at the hips. Various colored handkerchiefs indicate different exotic sexual specialties, all of which can be quite confusing (see box page 43). "The leather bars are dangerous," said a New York bank vice...
...came as Ford took time out to clout a few balls on the fairways of Vail, Colo., but his men were busy in the hinterlands on his behalf. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, on the verge of a new round of Middle East talks, joined with Attorney General Edward Levi in bringing to the American Bar Association's convention in Montreal Ford's messages of diplomatic and investigative restraint. Then Kissinger flew off to the bourbon belt and in Birmingham outlined American interest against the Communists in Portugal. In Bloomington, Ind., meanwhile, Secretary of the Treasury William Simon...
...Minister for most of the past 20 years, Sapir was Israel's Midas, tapping his broad foreign contacts for the billions of dollars needed for arms and industrialization. A behind-the-scenes political broker in Israel's ruling Labor Party, he was instrumental in the rise of Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir and Israel's current Premier, Yitzhak Rabin. A self-proclaimed dove, Sapir favored giving up captured Arab territory in return for an early Middle East peace agreement. After leaving the government last year, he devoted his energies to running the Jewish Agency, which encourages Jews round...