Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East-West battle of words being conducted on the diplomatic front. The Soviet decision to make a sensational public issue of the Peterson case was apparently prompted by U.S. disclosures four weeks ago that the FBI had captured three Soviet spies in Woodbridge, N.J. One of the Russians, a staff member of the Soviet mission to the U.N., had diplomatic immunity and was swiftly sent home. The other two, United Nations Employees Rudolf Chernyayev and Valdik Enger, were indicted by a grand jury on charges of passing U.S. Navy secrets and jailed with the unusually high bail of $2 million...
...thoughts naturally turn to gas chambers and attempted genocide. The A.C.L.U. has been bitterly attacked for defending Nazis' rights. Its membership, heavily Jewish, has dropped from a peak of 270,000 in 1976 to 200,000 today. A resultant $500,000 decline in dues and gifts has caused staff layoffs of up to 15% in some state offices. There is now less money to defend civil rights and liberties of a more sympathetic kind. "People who joined us because of other great causes," Neier reports, "were stunned over Skokie...
Where will Monrovia cut? First, notices will go out this week to 19 of the city's 185 employees. Ovrom will lose his top assistant. The library staff, currently six people, will be chopped by four. The 49-member police department will be left untouched, as will the 29 full-time firemen. But city council members will lose their $210-a-month stipends...
...least of the problems is where to house the department. Its headquarters staff is scattered among 22 sites across Washington and in suburban Virginia and Maryland. A year ago, even before the department was officially set up by Congress, Carter gave Schlesinger permission to house it in the Forrestal Building, midway between the White House and Capitol Hill. The 5,000 Department of Defense employees who occupied the building protested against being evicted, and not until late April could Schlesinger himself move in. So far he has been able to gather in 200 DOE officials-"We now have a bridgehead...
...been reduced from six to three, and the executive dining room has been closed. More important than these symbolic moves, this year's capital budget, originally set for $2.5 billion, is being cut drastically. At headquarters in Pittsburgh, and in branch offices from Houston to Tokyo, cutbacks in staff are reaching into the hundreds. Public affairs has been pruned severely; its chief, Senior Vice President Jayne Baker Spain, a former vice chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, is the highest Gulf officer to go so far; at least two more vice presidents also are out. The Gulf Transportation...