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...Personal Plea. In the recent past the problem was simpler. Editors had few qualms about revealing CIA operations-like domestic spying-that were clearly illegal. But the case of the Soviet sub was different. The CIA was operating in its legitimate sphere-foreign intelligence; and the operation was still going on, Colby had personally pleaded for restraint, and there was in any disclosure a risk of severe damage to U.S.-U.S.S.R. détente. In hindsight, however, some journalists are wondering whether the CIA wanted the story out for its own reasons (see THE NATION...
Last week, three days after the USRA had snubbed its plea for a $30 million emergency loan, the debt-ridden Rock Island Line became the first major railroad outside the Northeast since World War II to file for reorganization under the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Rescue operations began almost immediately. To avoid stranding 13,000 commuters, Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority promised to take over service in and out of the city. Meanwhile, the Interstate Commerce Commission summoned representatives from 60 railroads to Washington and indicated that it will dismember the 7,500-mile road. The ice will parcel...
...economy was the crisis that most worried Americans as Gerald Ford held his tenth press conference as President last week. He opened, however, with an emotional plea for Congress to approve additional military aid to tottering Cambodia. Said Ford: "We want an end to the killing and a negotiated settlement. But there is no hope of success unless the Congress acts quickly to provide the necessary means for Cambodia to survive." But Ford let it be known that he might be willing to settle for less than his original request for $222 million in aid (see THE WORLD...
Fisher makes a hard sell for the "creative satisfying and important" nature of government service. "Most students think of the government as a pack of evil men in the control room with their hands on all the switches," is the way he begins his plea. Well, Fisher explains, when you finally make it into that room, there's nobody there, except a guy sitting in the corner smoking a cigarette and reading a magazine, or maybe a man in a green eye-shade at a desk, but neither of them knows anything anyway. The argument ends. "If you take risks...
...standing in a line, waiting to enter his plea for more space at the Bureau of Petitions. The pressure in the line is normal, allowing only mass movement but short of crushing the individuals within it. The individual petitions are the usual: one person is asking for a job change, another fot increased protein allowance, yet another wants her grandson, who is among 400 New Haven children chosen to learn to read, to learn instead some "useful" skill. Sam's petition, since it involves the most basic Acceptance, is a threat to these people's notions of security. There...