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Several other federal cases have nearly foundered because of insufficient laws. The conviction of one man, accused of stealing confidential information from a Federal Energy Administration computer in Maryland, was possible only because the thief had dialed into a system from his office a few miles away in Virginia. He was prosecuted under an interstate wire-fraud statute. In response, Senator Abraham Ribicoff has introduced a bill prohibiting misuse of federal computers or any data-processing machine affecting interstate commerce. The bill would impose stiff punishments: up to 15 years in prison and a $50,000 fine. Says Justice Department...
...arouse the anger of such an uncompromising group as the antiabortionists. Their attack can be so personal that New Jersey Congressman Andy Maguire was actually chased through his office building by lobbyists screaming "Killer! Killer!" He nevertheless maintained his pro-abortion stand. It takes courage for a Congresswoman like Maryland's Barbara Mikulski, whose Baltimore area is heavily Catholic, to fight the right-to-lifers as resolutely as she has. "I am a professionally trained social worker," she explains. "I know what the coat-hanger abortion is all about...
SPIRO AGNEW. Nixon revealed that he had been unwilling to rely solely on the recommendations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson after an investigation was begun of kickbacks paid by Maryland contractors to his Vice President. Nixon asked that Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen, a Democrat, make his own investigation of the case. "There was no secret Richardson and Agnew didn't like each other. There was no secret that Richardson had ambitions to be Vice President or President in 1976, and earlier if possible." After Petersen concurred that the charges would lead to a recommendation of a prison sentence...
...half-time lead is completely safe, considering the kind of explosive lacrosse that has been played in recent years. For example, Cornell trailed Hopkins, 7-1, in that regular season game they eventually won, and trailed Maryland at the half in last year's final, 7-2, before rallying for a 12-10 lead and, eventually, a 16-13 triumph in overtime...
...public. "It's the segmentation of American society," explains Howard Hudson. "People know what they want to know about, and they want to know a lot about it. But they don't want to know about anything else." To Ray E. Hiebert, dean of the University of Maryland journalism school, newsletters assuage the alienating effects of more anonymous media. Says he: "Mass communication is out, personal communication is in, and that's what newsletters...