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Former Sergeant Donald Robinette described how recruiters in northern Ohio falsified high school diplomas and police records to meet the demands for recruits from his commander, Major Klaus Schreiber, who considers himself "the best recruiting officer in the Marine Corps." Said Robinette: "The pressure never stopped. We were doing everything to get the bodies and they still wanted more...
...point, Schreiber threatened to break a recruiter's arm if he failed to meet his quota. Schreiber told the committee that the threat was not serious. Said he: "We're in the Marine Corps. That's the way we speak. We're not graduates of the College of the Immaculate Conception." With considerable pride, Schreiber reported that he managed to raise his staffs performance from 59% of its quota to 100% after he took charge in 1977. His reward: headquarters increased his quota by 13 percentage points...
WISCONSIN. Fifteen months ago, when Governor Patrick Lucey was named Ambassador to Mexico, he bequeathed to his successor, Democrat Martin Schreiber, a healthy state economy and a budget surplus projected to total $500 million by next June. To soak up the spare cash, Schreiber, a colorless career politician, proposed cutting property taxes by a modest $110 million and increasing state spending on water purification, schools and debt reduction. But Schreiber, 39, has run afoul of Proposition 13 fever, which has been skillfully exploited by his Republican opponent, Lee Sherman Dreyfus...
...that he call a special session of the state legislature before the May and June primaries to decide how to distribute a $40 million surplus. Pryor, who will leave the statehouse this year to run for Senator so far has refused. When Wisconsin's Democratic acting Governor Martin Schreiber campaigns for election in his own right this year, he may be damaged by charges that the state's huge surplus came about because he kept taxes too high. Schreiber is now proposing tax cuts, but he and the legislature are squabbling over the size and type. Schreiber proposed...
...making. After Kennedy was assassinated, Salinger lost election to a Senate seat from California; bounced around a few uncongenial executive suites in the U.S., England and France; and helped manage George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign. After that debacle, he fled to France, jobless. Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber immediately hired him for L'Express in 1973, shortly before the Watergate story broke. Salinger's ability to make that long and intricate crisis comprehensible to a nation of Cartesians won him a wide following. Says Salinger: "It was the start of a whole new life...