Word: oct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems of inflation and taxation [Oct. 23] are not things the White House can do much about. The source of the trouble is Capitol Hill, and as you say, in the coming election nobody expects any radical changes in party strengths. The voters keep mindlessly sending back to Washington the same people who have been in control for most of the past 50 years. In the absence of a one-term limitation on Representatives and Senators, who are more concerned with their perpetuation in office than with the public good, the best thing we could do would be to clean...
...requiring diplomatic personnel in this country to have liability insurance is fine [Oct. 16] as far as it goes, but what does it do to indemnify American citizens who have been killed, injured or financially ruined before the law takes effect...
Your article on the Endangered Species Act [Oct. 16] displays the insensitivity with which man exploits the environment for his own short-run economic gain. What a pity that the earth's innocent creatures must pay for this exploitation with their existence. One could look upon man as a cancer consuming the earth, choking other varieties of life in its path as it progresses...
...outraged with Richard Schickel's review of the movie Midnight Express [Oct. 16]. I just saw the film and thought it was fantastic. Obviously he has no sympathy for Billy Hayes or for the thousands of other prisoners scattered in horrible jails throughout the world...
...report detailed how the committee's staff had compared Brooke's checkbook with other records and found that a number of entries had been obliterated or changed. One of them concerned an Oct. 4, 1972, bank deposit for $27,500 that was originally recorded in the checkbook as a loan from the Bank of Montreal. But when Brooke's lawyers submitted his checkbook to the Ethics Committee, the $27,500 was listed as a return of capital on an investment. Brooke and his lawyers claim that the alteration was made to correct a clerical error...