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...individual group were to press [for more than the pay limit]. This would have to be a test case. But the government are determined to stand absolutely firm. We are backing the pay limit with some legislation, not designed to send people to jail, but, for example, to tighten up the amount of money available [to finance excessive settlements]. What we propose is reserve powers against maverick or rogue employers, not against workers, but we shall go to great lengths to avoid having to invoke them. The Trades Union Congress accepted these powers with great reluctance...
...state of emergency, almost the entire press corps, including nearly 300 Indian journalists and some of the 75 foreign correspondents, simply stopped writing and put away their notebooks. The reporters were obeying a savage gag rule imposed on them last week by the government in a drastic effort to tighten India's month-old press control in time for the special parliamentary session. In effect, the rule forced newsmen to censor themselves...
...Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns confirmed what many experts had strongly suspected: a chief cause of the rise in rates has been a recent reining-in by the board of money supply and credit growth. In testimony before the House Banking Committee, Burns reported that the board moved to tighten monetary policy when the nation's money stock began to grow at an annual rate of 14½% during May and June-primarily because tax rebates and Social Security bonuses paid out by the Treasury in that period pumped cash into the economy...
Synod seemed to be moving slowly in the same direction. Attempting to tighten discipline and doctrine on what he saw as a drifting ship, Preus cracked down. His main targets were faculty members of the denomination's major academic arm, Concordia Seminary of St. Louis. These teachers, who in the ensuing debate styled themselves moderates, take a less rigid view of the Bible, accepting modern interpretation that explains the story of Adam and Eve, for instance, less as history than myth. In 1974 Preus won the ouster of the seminary's president, the Rev. John H. Tietjen...
...report also recommended a number of changes that would tighten internal controls over employees. Among them were proposals to add a second deputy director for administration and to expand the role of the CIA's inspector general to include investigation of reports by employees that the agency was violating...