Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...S.L.A.'s first communique, delivered by mail to an FM radio station in Berkeley, also contained a tape cassette on which Patricia had recorded a message to her parents beginning...
...charges: 1) establishing within the White House an irregular personal secret police (the plumbers) that engaged in such criminal acts as burglary, illegal wiretaps, espionage and perjury; 2) personal approval of a plan (later vetoed by J. Edgar Hoover) authorizing illegal domestic political surveillance, military spying on civilians, mail covers and espionage against dissenters, political opponents, journalists and federal employees; 3) the dangling of a high federal post to the judge in the Ellsberg-Pentagon papers trial; and 4) the attempted use of FBI investigations, income tax audits by the Internal Revenue Service and other threats to harass political "enemies...
...with a new twist. Demands for his punishment were replaced by expressions of gratitude that Kremlin leaders had up rooted "the traitor." Only twelve hours after Solzhenitsyn's deportation had been announced on Moscow Radio, Izvestia was able to print a letter purportedly from a reader in Baku, although mail usually takes ten days to reach Moscow from there. Other minor miracles were performed by letter writers from Minsk and Kiev: their messages of approval were also received several days ahead of schedule. Such transparently clumsy tactics were added evidence that the Kremlin had long prepared the action against Solzhenitsyn...
Part of the March 2 increase involves a rising charge for each piece of second-class mail. But the increase is also based on a complicated formula involving a magazine's ratio of ads to editorial content, its weight and size, and the distance it must travel. Thus no two magazines will be affected in precisely the same way, but all that use the mails are hurting. Says National Review Publisher William Rusher: "Journals of opinion traditionally lose money. The National Review is a journal of opinion, so the postal rates won't eat into our profits-they...
Postal Service officials do not view the publishers' dilemma as their problem. The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, which created the present Postal Service as a quasi-independent body, stressed that most classes of mail should pay their own way and contribute a "reasonable" share to the service's general overhead by 1976. The service clearly regards that mandate as all important, and never mind the consequences. "I don't see why any enterprise should expect any sort of subsidy," says Postmaster General Elmer T. Klassen, 65, who was with American Can Co. for 43 years...