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...source nicknamed "Sore Throat" (because of the similarity of his role to that of Watergate's still unidentified "Deep Throat") has been smuggling copies of confidential A.M.A. documents to federal officials and to newsmen around the country. This has been embarrassing the organization-already under study by the Postal Service and the Internal Revenue Service-and exposing it to the risk of congressional investigations. Says one A.M.A. official: "It is like death by a thousand cuts...
...Senators are talking of holding hearings on A.M.A. activities in order to determine whether they violate laws on political activities by corporations. The IRS also has for some time been trying to decide whether the A.M.A.'s activities should cost it its tax-exempt status, and the Postal Service is reviewing the A.M.A.'s second-class mailing privileges (along with those of other organizations). But the revelations have yet to force any visible changes in the organization's policies. Sammons remains firmly in charge and, despite growing disenchantment among younger physicians and an anticipated decline in membership...
...mailbox remains the private property of the individual," says Postal Service Lawyer Jack T. DiLorenzo. "But we do have some control." Yes, indeed. That control began shortly after the 1896 start of rural free delivery. By 1899 Postmaster General Charles Smith was already grousing that "tomato cans, cigar boxes, drainage pipes upended, soap boxes and even sections of discarded stovepipes were used as mailboxes." There followed three quarters of a century of regulation and regularization. Now the owner of a rural mailbox must place it at a height convenient to the carrier, and the box he buys must...
...zone operates its own courts, hospital, schools and even postal service, but few of the 15,000 Panamanians who work there share in the luxury. They remain largely an underclass; of 214 Canal pilots, for example, only two are Panamanian, the rest U.S. citizens. Outside the zone, per capita income averages about $1,000 annually, dropping to $123 for the lowest fifth of the population. Inside the zone, it approximates the U.S. middle class norm. Until recently, even the zone's water fountains were segregated-some for Zonians only, others for the Panamanians...
Some public functions could be contracted out to private companies. For example, profit-making companies in the U.S. pick up garbage at a lower cost than city sanitation departments do, and United Parcel Service often delivers packages faster and cheaper than the U.S. Postal Service. Economist Walter Heller advocates a market approach to fighting pollution. His idea: levy stiff taxes on the discharge of effluents; the market would reward with high profits the companies that did the most to clean up the environment, and penalize polluters with skimpy earnings or actual losses...