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...result, most U.S. voters get reporting on what their own Congressmen are up to only through occasional wire service or network stories or through self-serving news releases issued by the Congressmen themselves. In mid-September, a step will be taken to change all that. Under a six-month grant from Public Citizen, one of Ralph Nader's organizations, the newly formed Capitol Hill News Service will set five reporters on the trails of 40 to 50 preselected Congressmen. The newsmen will do investigative and feature coverage on the legislators, as well as stories on their routine activities...
...mistakes and shortcomings in class consciousness are attributed to a lack of thorough study of Chairman Mao's directives. Persuasion is the keynote-persuasion and reiteration. For two weeks of the six-month course, the cadres are sent off to live with peasant families, where they learn other farming techniques and gain an appreciation of how poorer classes of Chinese have, coped with their problems...
...effect. Meanwhile, he is moving ahead on other fronts. In order to create a new breed of brokers for his firms, he has established a $14 million-a-year training center in Los Angeles. So far, it has graduated 72 students; a new class of 600 will start the six-month, eight-hour-a-day course this fall. Perot says he prefers clean-cut ex-Navymen like himself. "I want people to identify with me, to create a closely knit team, rather than the lone wolves that characterize Wall Street," he says. Every duPont graduate has to sign a definitive...
...six-month general strike by Palestinian Arabs is followed by full-scale nationalist rebellion against British authority and Jewish settlers; the revolt is ended by a White Paper restricting Jewish immigration...
Last week Gray informed the Senate Judiciary Committee that 1) Chapin had admitted to the FBI that he had arranged the recruiting and hiring of Segretti, and 2) Kalmbach similarly had admitted to federal agents that he had paid Segretti $30,000 to $40,000 in a six-month period beginning in September 1971. Kalmbach had also told FBI agents, TIME learned, that he was authorized to spend up to $300,000 in Nixon-committee funds for "security" operations. Gray gave no hint of this to the Judiciary Committee...