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Joan Rivers sent a LOVE AND KISSES telegram offering to help out with the bail money. "Thug Buster" T shirts began to appear on the streets of New York City, and an aspiring rock group wrote a song in his honor ("I'm not going to give you my pay/ Try and take it away/ Come on, make my day/ They call him the vigilante"). The red-bereted Guardian Angels jingled canisters in front of subway straphangers, collecting for his defense. But Bernhard Hugo Goetz, the 37-year-old electronics expert who shot four black teen-agers...
...federal silence was encouraging the violence. Asked Judy Goldsmith, president of the National Organization for Women: "Where is the great advocate of law-and- order?" Then came three bombings on Christmas Day in Pensacola, Fla., and one early New Year's morning in Washington, D.C. Goldsmith dashed off a telegram to the President, urging him to condemn "the terrorist acts in the same strong terms you condemn the attacks of international terrorists upon American citizens...
...disbanding the CEA. They maintain that among the Government's thousands of economists, the three members of the CEA are the only ones far enough removed from departmental infighting to advise the President objectively. Raymond Saulnier, chairman of the CEA under President Eisenhower, last week sent Reagan a telegram supporting the council. Says he: "I don't know what the Administration is trying to do. I can hardly believe it." But others were less concerned. Said Barry Bosworth, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who once served on the CEA staff: "Almost every Cabinet office...
...Bureau works is quite simple: when someone sights an unusual occurance-most commonly an asteriod, nova, supernova or comet-he contacts Marsden, who then performs some preliminary calculations to verify the accuracy of the report. He then sends out a telegram from the telex machine located in his office to the service's 800 subscribers...
...another case, an amateur astronomer in Ohio reported sighting a comet on New Years Eve, and went as far as to notify the press about it. Maraden, unable to locate the comet in the sky, reported that the comet remianed unconfirmed. A short while later a telegram came in staling that astronomers in Japan confirmed the citing. Although the telegram was signed "Tokyo Observatory" Marsden checked the routing on the envelope which showed that the telegram came from Ohio...