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Finally, postal authorities also will study ways to reduce the number of small post offices by combining districts where feasible. Only recently, the General Services Administration, Congress's financial watchdog, reported that up to 12,000 of the nation's 31,000 post offices could be eliminated at a saving of $100 million a year, with practically no loss in efficiency. Yet considering the demands made upon the nation's Postal Service, it may well be unrealistic to expect that even with improved efficiency it can ever be truly selfsupporting...
...Sept. 8, to give the school committee more time to act. Last week, with busing procedures still in chaos, the judge summoned committee members to his courtroom and sat them down with representatives of the Citywide Coordinating Council, a citizens' panel set up by Garrity as a watchdog over Phase Two. "The best way I know to frustrate the plan is delay, delay, delay, so that a shambles exists on opening day," Garrity lectured. "That's not going to happen...
Public Budget. The goals of the White House are to restore public confidence in the functions of the intelligence agency and establish an effective congressional watchdog organization. President Ford, say his top aides, now favors the creation of a special joint committee, drawing members from both the House and Senate, that would have the power-still not spelled out -to oversee the operations of the CIA. Such a step was recommended by both the Rockefeller Commission, which looked into the domestic transgressions of the CIA, and a blue-ribbon commission on foreign policy that was created by President Richard Nixon...
...Harvard-trained lawyer who had a corporate practice in Grand Rapids, Engman was appointed to the FTC chairmanship in 1973. The Nixon White House evidently wanted a reliably controllable chairman to replace prickly, independent Miles W. Kirkpatrick, who revived the long calcified FTC as a trade watchdog and riled the business community with his emphasis on consumer protection. But instead of taming the FTC, Engman stepped up its activity. Hardly a week passes that the 1,600-man agency does not announce some new rule, investigation or lawsuit. Its principal targets have been monopoly, unfair influence, industrial or professional conspiracy...
Critics complain that Engman's emphasis on antitrust may mire the FTC in years of litigation, to the detriment of its consumer watchdog activities. But defenders of his legal activism point to the fact that for the first time in years, top law-school graduates are seeking jobs at the FTC. One current question in Washington is how long Engman will be there to lead them. It would be no surprise to some Engman watchers if, when Michigan Democratic Senator Philip Hart retires after his current term, Native Son Engman tries for his seat...