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Teso said the crackdown will involve close to 200,000 violators and will probably result in a return of over $500,000 to Cambridge's municipal coffers...
...Congress last month, it puts a paltry $300 million limit to such credits. It also makes free emigration for Soviet citizens a condition of trade concessions to the U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's public assertion in December that there was no such agreement, combined with a new crackdown on Soviet Jewish emigration (see below), suggested to some Kremlinologists that Brezhnev's authority may be under serious challenge...
Mayer argues that a Government crackdown now would be far less risky than accepting the present situation. "The banking structure that is now building can collapse," he warns flatly. "The larger the regulatory apparatus permits it to grow, the more catastrophic the collapse will be." Should it occur, neither the public nor the men who supervise the nation's banks will be able to say that they have not been warned...
...world's most famous believer in inerrancy is Evangelist Billy Graham, but the most controversial hard-liner today is the Rev. Jacob A.O. Preus, 54, a Minnesota Governor's son with a Ph.D. in classics. Preus' crackdown as president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod led to the seminary walkout and the current threat of church wide schism. His personal view of Genesis includes a global flood in the Noah story and a six-day creation (though he leaves open to question how long the "days" were and how old the earth is). He believes literally in the Adam...
...ferocity that surprised even its own leaders, the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army was being hunted down last week not only in Ulster, where the I.R.A. has been on the defensive for some time, but in the Irish Republic and England as well. In part, the crackdown was a response to the widespread outrage that followed the pub bombings in Birmingham last month in which 21 people were killed and another 184 injured (TIME, Dec. 2). The campaign included arrests in Ulster and Britain of suspected I.R.A. supporters and a comprehensive new criminal bill in the republic aimed...