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...bill is designed to update and stream-line the enormous body of federal criminal codes, but civil rights activists contend that it will curtail individual liberties by adding a series of new laws against activities such as protesting at nuclear power plants and publishing certain information leaked by government sources...
Indeed, the Watergate crew has turned out to be an incredibly literate band of co-conspirators, producing a stream of fiction and non-fiction that began, it seems with the first indictment Charles Colson, in his memoir, Born Again, told how Jesus--if no one else--has forgiven him for paying hush money to the Watergate burglars. In Blind Ambition, John Dean reminded us that he decided to snitch on Nixon for the good of the country--not to mention the success of his own plea-bargaining. And G. Gordon Liddy's bizarre autobiography, Will, left no doubt that...
...hunt for waste and excess. The legislators will find, however, that the defense budget resists quick cuts that result in very large immediate savings. Salaries and retirement pay account for almost one-fourth of the budget and are hard to reduce because of the need for a steady stream of recruits and re-enlistments in lieu of a draft. The controversial strategic superweapons of the future, such as the B-1 bomber program and the MX missile, will be debated to determine whether the U.S. should commit itself to such huge funding in the years ahead, but even entirely eliminating...
...final sweetener, Ford offered workers a "guaranteed income stream." In essence, the plan is something like the Japanese system of lifetime employment. The company said it would give employees with 15 years on the job at least 50% of their current wages until retirement, regardless of whether they were working or not. An employee laid off after 25 years, for example, would collect about $240 a week...
...Hoover was "leading the country down the path of socialism." Eleanor Roosevelt best summed up her husband's uncertain command of the future when she wrote at the time of his Inauguration: "One has a tremendous feeling of going it blindly, because we're in a tremendous stream, and none of us knows where we're going to land...