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Military officials readily admit that their communications equipment is not at fault. The blame rests on human errors in the sending and routing of messages-and in acting on available information. One tragic mistake occurred in June 1967 when the Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered the spy ship U.S.S. Liberty to leave its station in the Mediterranean off the Sinai Peninsula. The message failed to arrive until after Israeli jets attacked Liberty, mistaking it for an Egyptian vessel. Thirty-four U.S. sailors were killed in the attack. A woman clerk in the Pentagon had routed the Liberty order...
Budge has his defenders. They point out that the SEC staff has continued to press stern disciplinary actions against brokers suspected of manipulations. The SEC has also been prodding brokerage houses to clean up the continuing paperwork mess in back offices. On the major issue of overhauling commission rates, however, Budge has left it to the stock exchanges to develop detailed proposals. He believes that the SEC should only act as devil's advocate, asking questions about any proposed changes to make sure that no important considerations are overlooked. This approach annoys some high stock-exchange officials, who want...
...little need for a driving pace at the SEC. In May he appointed James J. Needham to fill a vacancy on the commission. Needham, who for twelve years headed the New York office of a North Carolina-based accounting firm, is a complete unknown in the securities industry. SEC staff members fear that he may need lengthy on-the-job training from Judge Budge and others...
...office has also aided neighborhood action groups; CLAO staff attorneys, for example, did the legal work needed to draft Cambridge's Model Cities ordinance...
...always likely to spark symbolic confrontations, and the chambers were very packed indeed during the rent control debate. In large part, this was due to the idea behind the entire housing convention movement, an idea currently popular with Federal agencies in Cambridge and elsewhere--"citizen participation." The young CEOC staff members who, behind the scenes, did much of the housing convention organizing take "citizen participation" in local government as one of their guiding lights and speared no pains to assure a large turnout of angry citizens for the council meeting and housing convention rallies. Get out a large number...