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Strong Language. Ford had unintentionally placed himself in contempt of a court order directing more than 300 people who had played any role in the grand jury investigations to maintain complete public silence about the case. He said later he did not think he would be quoted by name, and suggested that he had been misquoted, although he did not say in what way. His bitter outburst brought a deliberately contemptuous statement from one of the most respected figures on the Kent State campus, Geology Professor Glenn W. Frank. In testimony given before the President's Commission on Campus...
...selecting him over 33 senior admirals. Zumwalt is proving unusually well-equipped in both inclination and experience to tackle the two most pressing challenges now facing all of the armed services: to retain and attract more volunteers at a time of widespread youthful antagonism toward the military, and to maintain U.S. security despite the curtailment of defense budgets...
Immediate Problems. Some critics maintain that Heath is moving in the wrong direction altogether. Britain is gripped by its worst wage-price inflation in two decades. In the past ten months, prices have risen 6% and wages 12%. However, productivity has increased less than 2% in the last year, weakening Britain's competitive position in the world market. The new tax cuts may increase inflationary pressures by placing more spending power in private hands and by increasing food prices. The danger for Heath is that he will become bogged down in immediate economic problems before he can execute...
Harold L. Goyette, director of the Planning Office for the University, said, "We don't believe there's anything like a crisis but we do think it's a problem so we do have to have a plan to efficiently and economically maintain the quality of the environment...
...gives the FBI a green light to investigate bombings or attacks on police, cases that previously were not normally handled by federal authorities. On one issue, U.S. officials insist that they intend to play it tough. If an official or a foreign diplomat is kidnaped, they maintain that they will reject ransom demands in an effort to discourage terrorists from trying again. Despite the obvious need for toughness in such situations, any democratic country faces dangers from too harsh as well as from too weak a reaction. The only countries that may prove immune to the new terror...