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...upshot: the incident contributed to the establishment of a high-level interagency committee to coordinate all Government initiatives that might affect U.S.-Soviet relations. No further attempts were made to recruit Lusis, and he returned to the U.S.S.R. in June. But the running feud still goes on between the State Department and the FBI over whether Soviet exchange students should be fair game for recruitment attempts. Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski have discussed the possibility of new policy guidelines to govern FBI counterespionage operations...
...upshot of this has been an agonizing political impasse and motionlessness. The political parties which have garnered substantial electoral support--the Social Democratic Labor Party, the moderate and major Catholic party; the Alliance Party, a non-sectarian party; and the Unionists--all still retain local and parliamentary influence. But in terms of their ability to influence the direction of the whole province, they are jockeying in thin air. Only the Alliance Party, which stresses reconciliation and espouses both the link with Britain and Catholic civil rights, gives indications that it might one day unite enough moderate Catholic and Protestant support...
...sense, Yokum is a victim of his own efficiency. "In 1974 the Government told us to plant fence row to fence row," says Yokum. "They needed all the grain we could produce to aid a starving world." The farmers did as they were told. The upshot: a huge surplus of grain that drastically reduced prices. In 1973 the Government was concerned about the increasing price of meat, and imposed ceilings. "Every time we begin to get a fair price for one of our products," says Yokum, "the Government steps in and puts a ceiling on it." To counteract the price...
Thus it is doubtful that a House-Senate conference committee would sustain the Senate position supporting deregulation. What is more, Jimmy Carter has vowed to veto such a bill, and neither chamber would have the votes to override him. Nonetheless, the upshot of the Senate vote is likely to be that while controls will remain, there will be compromises that will send the price of natural gas substantially higher than Carter had wanted-perhaps as high as $2.25 per m.c.f. when a bill is finally passed...
...made more than 17,000 arrests for felonies and serious misdemeanors by adults. Yet prosecutors found more than half the cases so flimsy they refused to press charges. Judges tossed out an additional 8%, and in 6% there was no action at all because the defendants simply vanished. The upshot: only 33% of those arrested were ever brought to court for plea or trial. The report acknowledges that factors in the poor conviction record may include the shortage of policemen and such restrictions on police power as the still controversial Miranda rule, which requires the arresting officer to inform...