Word: promptly
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Specifically, CBS was upset by a story in the Des Moines Register and a Jack Anderson column syndicated in 620 papers. The Register is the old paper of Presidential Aide Clark Mollenhoff, but it seems that he did not prompt the Register on this matter. In fact, it may have been the other way round. After the Register quoted Pentagon sources to cast doubt on the Bau Me item, Mollenhoff wrote a memo lumping it with other alleged CBS News indiscretions. The memo was circulated around the White House and leaked to Anderson...
...some new type of financial legerdemain," but what might more accurately be attributed to, as Senator John J. Williams puts it, "a case of having milked the company dry of its assets." Chalk started out well enough. He replaced old streetcars with spiffy new air-conditioned buses, and demanded prompt, courteous service from his drivers. Longstanding union grievances were eased by increasing drivers' wages to the point that they were the fourth best in the country for city transport workers. Within two years, however, Chalk began paying dividends to stockholders, including himself: he and his wife own a third...
Sisco, who was in Jerusalem meeting Israeli officials, decided to "defer" his Jordanian visit. At the same time, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Harrison M. Symmes delivered a stinging note to the Amman government, protesting its failure to protect U.S. property and demanding prompt and full compensation. Jordan responded by demanding the recall of Symmes, a veteran foreign service officer who has spent 23 years in Arab countries. From Jerusalem Sisco traveled via Nicosia to Beirut, where anti-American students set the mood for his visit by throwing stones at the U.S. embassy, and then Teheran, the next scheduled stops after...
...Washington University in St. Louis last month, an early-morning clash between police and anti-ROTC demonstrators helped to prompt what may be the nation's first federal-grand-jury investigation of a campus protest. The jury, which last week heard testimony from faculty, students and newsmen, is trying to determine whether the protesters violated the civil rights of ROTC students. The jurors will also consider whether a fire that leveled the university's small Army ROTC building in February violated a federal law that protects national defense installations...
...original paragraph read: "Lack of responsiveness by officers of administration and instruction, insensitivity to widely perceived needs to change, failure to give full and fair hearing and prompt response to grievances, and failure in a process of decision to consult with those concerned with the results of the decision are incompatible with the existence of an open University community, and are as damaging as some of the more overt violations of rights...