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With 15 states and nearly a third of the U.S.'s population under its purview, our Chicago-based Midwest bureau is never short of stories. But last week, with the embargo of Soviet grain sales sending shock waves through the Great Plains and a herd of presidential hopefuls campaigning in Iowa before the state's party caucuses, the bureau's correspondents found their list of assignments unusually heavy. Says Benjamin Cate, who has been Midwest's chief since 1975: "It was our busiest week with breaking stories since our cover on the Big Freeze...
Three years ago the University police took their anger and frustration over changes in the department to the bargaining table. After 13 long months, they extracted some firm promises from the University's negotiating team. The union's demands went far beyond the purview of most bargaining sessions. The police then focussed not on the perennial demand for cost of living increases and better benefits, but on the methods used to transform the department from a familial friendly cop outfit to a professional crime fighting organization...
Each issue contains about ten stories-from exhaustive examinations of major public issues to sure-footed treks through the bureaucracy to thoughtful political analyses-ranging in length from 1,500 to 15,000 words. Although its purview includes all the works and pomps of Government, the Journal emphasizes the Executive Branch. By contrast, Congressional Quarterly, a crosstown rival of sorts, tends to look at Washington from the vantage point of Capitol Hill. The Journal has a relatively large staff of twelve full-time reporters and five contributing editors. With a generous two to three weeks to work on projects, they...
...Then came the influx of survivors from the Nazi Holocaust, many bearing the tattoos of their concentration camps. The newcomers entered a business that had been a specialty of Jews since the Middle Ages, when the trade was one of the few professions that did not come under the purview of a tightly controlled guild. Diamonds were also perfect wares for a persecuted and wandering people who had to carry their means of livelihood with them...
...original bill died in committee, and with good reason; the proposal contained some of the Nixon administration's most paranoid reflections. It recommended the death penalty for a shockingly wide range of crimes and a "National Security" act that would protect at executive discretion almost anything within government purview. Under that legislation, for example, Daniel Ellsberg would have been jailed. After S. 1400 died, Senators John McLellan (D-Ark.) and Roman Hruska (R-Neb.), the national champion of mediocrity, co-sponsored a less strident version...