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...Homeland security??secretary Michael Chertoff tried to explain last week why air security has been given greater priority than protecting mass transit on the ground. "A fully loaded airplane with jet fuel ... has the capacity to kill 3,000 people," he said. "A bomb in a subway car may kill 30 people." That brought an outcry from many city officials. But it shouldn't reassure anyone that all the security problems in the air have been solved. Take the troubled no-fly list of the Transportation Security Administration...
...maximum benefit (currently $460 per month), the amount a worker will receive from Social Security when he retires increases as his salary rises. Since pay hikes partly reflect inflation, the measure thus inadvertently double-indexed future benefit levels for these workers?about 86% of the people covered by Social Security???to price rises. To eliminate the double boost, the House approved a complex new formula that will keep the average benefit where it is now: at about 43% of the salary that a recipient earned while working...
...spent every year by the Federal Government, states and cities to eliminate drastic poverty. In addition, special hiring drives, private job-training programs, university scholarships and affirmative-action programs are aimed at aiding the motivated poor. Yet by most of society's measures?job prospects, housing, education, physical security???the underclass is hardly better off, and in some cases worse off, than before the War on Poverty...
...about the SALT talks then going on with the Soviet Union. That leak, said the President, "does affect the national security???this particular one. This isn't like the Pentagon papers...
...taps and burglaries. One guideline said that officials should not answer any questions "relating to national security???e.g., some of the incidents which gave rise to concern over leaks." This could block more revelations about the White House "plumbers." But were the guidelines released because national security was really involved or because investigation of the activities could lead directly to the President? Nixon also reasserted, through Garment, earlier restrictions against officials' divulging any conversations with the President on grounds of Executive privilege...