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...what is." Barker's postprison rehabilitation program is a central Florida housing project he has agreed to promote along with his break-in partners Eugenic Martinez and Virgilio Gonzalez. The project, dubbed Watergate Hills, is a brainchild of Florida Builder John Priestes, who himself just ended a six-month stint in the slammer for FHA influence buying. The foursome hope to make $7 million to $9 million from the 600-unit complex, but last week their profit margin was shaved when thieves relieved on-site construction trailers of $9,000 worth of equipment. "The irony to me is that...
...addition to immediate raises of about $40 a week, yearly 3% salary hikes plus cost of living increments, members of Local 6 (average age: 56) will receive a $2,500 bonus if they retire during the next six months. As an added enticement, retiring printers can exchange a guaranteed six-month leave for a half-year's pay plus the bonus, giving them a lump settlement of around...
...forcibly deported. In 1968 a gallant Lennon pleaded guilty in London to possession of enough grass for 40 joints in order to avoid, he said, dragging Pregnant Yoko Ono through the courts. But when John and Yoko arrived to live in the U.S. in 1971, John only got a six-month visa-unrenewable, it turned out, because of his conviction. John appealed his fate. Last week the appeal was rejected by the immigration service, and now his lawyers plan to take the case into federal court. If that fails, John, who is now sulking in Los Angeles, still...
...number of activities, not formally proscribed by the law, which a President could legally undertake at indescribable cost to the Republic." Buckley imagined a number of fanciful actions for which a President should be indicted, such as commuting the sentences of all federal prisoners or taking a six-month vacation. Notwithstanding such reductio ad absurdum, Buckley says, the principle remains: "Congress has got to retain the right to pass judgment on gross presidential abuses: the true, and studied, disrespect for the sophisticated obligations of office...
...meet the threat, Levy contends, the major oil-importing nations must: 1) coordinate research and development of alternate sources of energy and agree to guarantee profitable prices to people who produce, say, oil from shale or tar sands; 2) work out a common program to build six-month stockpiles of oil and share imports among themselves if the exporters again curtail or shut off supplies; 3) agree that they will not try to get the cash to pay for oil by unduly pushing exports to and curtailing imports from each other; 4) especially important, develop coordinated programs to conserve energy...