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Defiance. Since Heath's upset election in 1970, Britain has been pummeled by long strikes by dockers, electrical workers, postal and communications workers and coal miners, who forced large swatches of the country to do without heat or power for the better part of a rugged month last winter. Even before the dockers walked out again two weeks ago, Britain had already had enough strikes, wildcat walkouts, shutdowns, sitouts and other assorted stoppages to make 1972 the worst labor year since the great General Strike...
...only thing a nickel will still buy is idea power. It emanates from that great Georgian monolith, the U.S. Postal Service, which until last year charged 2.48? to deliver a 7.6-oz. magazine to its readers. Two copies distributed for a nickel -the greatest bargain in power since the Tennessee Valley Authority. A steal? Postal authorities think so, and they say that it is time to stop the ripoff. So, in addition to increasing the cost of first-and third-class mail, they are currently escalating second-class (magazine and newspaper) rates by an average 127% over five years...
...Congress issued a statement of Washingtonian resonance: "The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the nation together through the personal, educational, literary and business correspondence of the people." Note the common word bind. Suddenly that vital concept is threatened. For with the abrupt increase in rates, the binding would weaken or break. Many a magazine would disappear...
Funeral Suit. He then goes on to prove it. An old friend calls with a grotesque request. He has read in a gossip column that Baldwin never again will wear the suit he wore at Martin Luther King's funeral. The friend, a postal clerk, wants to know if he could have the suit. Baldwin takes it to him and stays for dinner. A few drinks, an attempt by the friend to defend U.S. Indochina policy, and Baldwin explodes in violent profanity before the man and his family. There is also Baldwin torn between directing the legal defense...
...theory, the FBI has always functioned as the Justice Department's investigative agency. The director is charged with investigating all violations of federal laws except those assigned to other federal agencies, such as postal cases and narcotics crimes. The bureau has jurisdiction over some 180 investigative matters, including espionage, sabotage, treason, kidnaping, extortion, bank robbery and civil rights, and of course has powers of arrest for violations. As Hoover saw it, "The FBI is strictly a fact-finding agency, responsible in turn to the Attorney General, the President, the Congress and in the last analysis, the American people...