Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...military machine. Senators should begin a filibuster against all Administration appropriations bills now pending, whether military or not. In addition, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should begin immediately its longpostponed televised hearings on Administration policy in Vietnam and summon Nixon, Laird, Kissinger, Rogers, and Mitchell to give an account of their crimes...
...special hostility between black cops and black criminals is not hard to account for. In times past, says James Draper, a Cleveland narcotics detective, the black community respected a black policeman "because he was a symbol of someone who made it." Now, "generally, a black policeman doesn't boast about his occupation. The job is dangerous enough, and there are some elementsyou may not know them immediatelythat don't see color. The badge is enough." In Detroit last month in front of the headquarters of a group associated with the Black Panthers, one black...
...home in Moscow and well out of bounds to nosy Western correspondents, the Russian social critic, 32, was sentenced to three years at hard labor for having "distributed fabrications defaming the Soviet state." Among his "fabrications" were two books published only in the West: Involuntary Journey to Siberia, an account of the 18 months he served in exile, and Will The Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?, a grim, apocalyptic view of Russia's future (TIME...
Cigarette promotions account for 10% of the networks' ad revenues, and task forces of salesmen, notably from ABC, have been eagerly scouting for other advertisers to fill the gap. Their major targets: national retail chains, credit card companies, insurance companies, brokerage houses and all big firms involved in the travel business. Because of the economic slump, it is unlikely that the hole left by cigarette ads will be quickly plugged...
Ackermann's order would have asked Cronin to state before the public meeting when and in what circumstances he plans to implement the rent roll back provision of the rent control act, whether he will establish an escrow account for tenant rents pending the Supreme Court litigation regarding rent levels, and whether he will refuse to issue eviction certificates to landlords whose tenants refuse to pay November rents or put them instead into an escrow account...