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...reform. Eighteen lawyers were disbarred or disciplined in the Watergate scandal, and D.C. Bar Disciplinary Counsel Fred Grabowsky now says: "Watergate may have been the best thing that ever happened to us." Prodded by Supreme Court decisions, the bar has belatedly begun backing group prepaid legal-service plans, Blue Shield-style arrangements that bring legal aid to middle-income citizens for a flat fee (the United Auto Workers, for instance, has installed such a system for its Chrysler workers). With some exceptions, bar groups have also pushed for expansion of Government legal-assistance programs for the poor (which incidentally employ...
...more, the woman still attributed her dismissal to discrimination. She argued that it would not have occurred had her partner been white. Questions: Is there not some limit to the personal habits and traits that an employer must tolerate? Would not this woman's employer be entitled to shield other employees who might be distracted-or even disturbed-by the spectacle of casual copulation in the office...
Just as readily, an employee at Blue Cross-Blue Shield looked up Doderer's file-with the help of her Social Security number, which Weston obtained from county voting rolls-and reported that she had not filed a claim in the past 18 months. From a marriage certificate, Weston discovered that Doderer had been married only once; from birth certificates, that she was a housewife when her children were born, in 1948 and 1951. Motor vehicle records showed that she had used a $2,000 loan from the Hawkeye State Bank to buy her 1976 Plymouth Valiant and also...
...Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. He will pay an employee of Ma Bell as much as $250 for an unlisted phone number, but notes that the payola has inflated from $25 before passage in 1974 of the Privacy Act, designed to shield citizens from at least some invasions of privacy by the Government. Since then, Beltrante gripes, some of his phone company sources have dried up, although the law does not directly threaten them...
Tragically, we are forced by the malignant growth of Soviet weaponry to build some of these awesome and expensive systems. But if we have them as part of our shield, we will probably never have to use them in anger...