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From 1953 until February 1973, according to Colby, the CIA "conducted several programs to survey and open selected mail between the U.S. and two Communist countries." One, for presumed counter-intelligence purposes, was "to identify individuals in active correspondence with Communist countries." The others were "designed primarily to determine the nature and extent of censorship techniques." In a secret addendum to his report, he told the Senate subcommittee that the program involved mail from New York and San Francisco to China and the Soviet Union...
Besides these Nation stories, other sections survey various aspects of our economic malaise. Economy & Business reports on the sputtering auto industry; Behavior examines some secret desires to see recession slide into depression; while Press offers a critique of journalism's performance in reporting the "dismal science," economics...
...spill could not have come at a worse time or in a worse place. The Malacca Strait is a key short cut in the "lifeline" route followed by most supertankers on the long voyage from the Persian Gulf to Japan. Japanese officials had just completed a survey of ship traffic through the narrow, heavily traveled waterway. As the slick was spreading, they were meeting with authorities from the Strait nations to discuss the survey and consider new safety regulations for ship traffic. Now they fear that the oil spill may lead to new restrictions on supertankers in the Strait...
...laws, now only slightly more stringent than West Germany's, could grow tougher, whatever economic experts may recommend. Some legislators are sure to offer new restrictions this year. Meanwhile, a law enacted by Congress last year requires a new, comprehensive Government survey of foreign ownership in American enterprises. In response, the Treasury Department has ordered a study that may lead to further federal regulations. The Government could even try to use the hypothetical power of expropriation. Similar action was taken on trading-with-the-enemy grounds against some German companies during World War II. Nowadays, the Supreme Court would...
...economics team, but so far its efforts have been unspectacular. The Los Angeles Times this month is recalling Washington Bureau Chief John Lawrence to set up and run a new "economy desk," and just in time. One typical Page One example of Times enterprise: "A door-to-door Times survey of 457 Southern Californians indicates that inflation is regarded here as the nation's most serious economic problem by a sizable majority-but there is no widespread agreement on what to do about...