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...pacifist Church of the Brethren, where obvious military investments have always been avoided, Treasurer Robert Greiner questioned the report's blackballing of standard blue chips like A.T. &T. (5.5% military sales, principally the Safeguard ballistic missile system and Nike Hercules missile). "You can't get out of everything," Greiner said. "To be a purist, you could hardly stay in the U.S." Even worse conflicts will probably be raised when the Corporate Information Center starts evaluating industries for their overall "purity," considering such factors as their consumer policies, minority-hiring practices and polluting of the environment. What...
...South, the farm bloc and labor, all of which correctly saw increased trade as a stimulant to prosperity. Now that alignment has been fragmented. Farmers, who devote a quarter of their acreage to growing crops for export, are still reliably for free trade. But the South, to safeguard its textile mills, has turned protectionist. Big business, which has built up extensive operations overseas, is mostly for free trade, but with some backsliding. Most important, the hard-lobbying labor movement has turned vehemently against free trade...
...could count on only five votes. At least seven Politburo members are implacably opposed to granting greater governmental authority to Brezhnev to go along with his party leadership; to do so would be to scrap the collective leadership system that was instituted after Khrushchev's ouster as a safeguard against one-man dictatorship...
Gravel's attorney argued yesterday that Garrity's ruling provides no prior determination of either the scope of the government's inquiry or the legitimacy of its questioning. They maintained that Garrity had not established a safeguard to prevent the grand jury from becoming "an oppressive instrument" that would "conduct a total fishing expedition into the activities of the legislative branch...
...with Nixon's decision made, AEC Commissioner Schlesinger was firm: "The primary purposes of Cannikin are to proof-test the Spartan warhead . . . before large investment of funds is made on that component of the Safeguard system. Environmental damage has been exhaustively considered, and overriding requirements of national security have, of necessity, taken precedence...