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Gorski's major technical innovation has been the installation of the Management Information System, a computer which records and prints out all daily police activities, and is supposed to make police deployment and general crime prevention work more scientifically. "We have to equal out the work load among out personnel," says Gorski...
...sign of the increasing edginess in Washington is the rising controversy over the sale of American grain to the Soviet Union. The Ford Administration has publicly endorsed the sale but the AFL-CIO's president, George Meany, vowed that the International Longshoremen's Association would not load such grain unless Ford did more to "protect the American consumer and the American shipping industry." He declared that the Administration must come to him with such guarantees and "with Dr. Kissinger at the head of the parade." Growled Meany: "Foreign policy is too damned important to be left...
...union chiefs against the latest Soviet purchase of American grain is unusual, to say the least. Up in Washington, Meany & Co. last week continued to denounce the grain deal, and to insist that the "boycott" of Soviet ships would continue. But meanwhile down at the Gulf Coast grain ports, loading was going on as usual. The longshoremen have in fact been kept working by court injunctions ever since their job action was announced two weeks ago, and they seem unperturbed. Said Luther Wiggins Jr., a union official in Houston: "If the judge says we load ships, we load ships...
...farmers to whom Ford was appealing have been growing increasingly restive over mounting opposition to the sale of 10 million tons of grain to the Soviet Union. AFL-CIO President George Meany spearheaded that opposition last week by announcing that the International Longshoremen's Association would not load the grain on ships until the White House provided assurances that the deal would not increase food prices for American consumers. Seeming to take the farmers' side at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Ford declared that a "sound, fully productive agriculture is a key element in this nation...
...incident in an anniversary week that left eleven dead and 150 injured across Ulster. Among those killed was four-year-old Siobhan McCabe, felled by a sniper's bullet apparently intended for a British soldier. Another was Samuel Llewellyn, 29, a Protestant truck driver who was delivering a load of paperboard in the Catholic Falls Road area of Belfast to help patch up windows shattered in a bomb blast the previous day. Although Llewellyn was making the delivery at the request of a Catholic welfare organization, he was dragged from the truck by a Catholic mob, beaten and shot...