Word: virginia
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...foreign currency to Soviet citizens at speculative prices-a charge that could cost him eight years in a forced-labor camp plus a five-year term of exile in the U.S.S.R. Crawford, a genial Alabaman, was driving to a cocktail party with his fiancée, U.S. Embassy Secretary Virginia Olbrish, when policemen accosted him at a traffic light and dragged him from his car. When his fiancée resisted the cops, she was bruised in the scuffle. Late last week, U.S. Consul Clifford Gross was allowed to visit Crawford at Moscow's Lefortovo Prison. Crawford appeared...
...least of the problems is where to house the department. Its headquarters staff is scattered among 22 sites across Washington and in suburban Virginia and Maryland. A year ago, even before the department was officially set up by Congress, Carter gave Schlesinger permission to house it in the Forrestal Building, midway between the White House and Capitol Hill. The 5,000 Department of Defense employees who occupied the building protested against being evicted, and not until late April could Schlesinger himself move in. So far he has been able to gather in 200 DOE officials-"We now have a bridgehead...
...this innocuous-sounding program cost $1.5 billion in 1965, $13 billion this year, and predictions are that it will cost $27 billion by 1985. The number of people receiving disability payments has tripled in 13 years, to 4.8 million workers and dependents, a total that exceeds the population of Virginia, say, or Norway. Disability costs are an important reason for the near bankruptcy of Social Security and the large payroll tax increase that was voted by Congress last December at the urging of the White House and Califano...
LAST MONTH a federal jury in Virginia convicted David Truong and Ronald Humphrey on counts of espionage, stealing government documents and passing them to the government of Vietnam. On June 23 the two men will be sentenced, facing a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. While Truong and Humphrey did, indeed, steal some classified documents and give them to Vietnam through a CIA agent, they maintain that their purpose was not espionage but a part of a campaign to normalize relations between the United States and Vietnam. During their trial, both prosecution and defense witnesses disagreed whether the passing...
...very sad to be going; we've had a wonderful time." Virginia Hutchison, a special education teacher in Cambridge, said yesterday, adding that she and her husband wanted to let someone with "fresh ideas" take...