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...been quietly looking into a sordid matter: the problem of homosexuals in the Government. The problem had been the subject of nervous explanations, joke-cracking and effective campaign sneers ever since last February, when Deputy Under Secretary of State John Peurifoy offhandedly told Congress that State had gotten rid of 91 employees for homosexuality...
There were 574 cases involving civilian Government employees and 69 are still under investigation; in all the other cases the accused had either quit, been cleared or fired. The investigators found the greatest batch of civilian cases-143-in the State Department. State had cleared or gotten rid of all but a dozen whose cases were still pending. A surprise second in the totals was the Veterans Administration, with 101 cases. Others: Atomic Energy Commission, 8; EGA, 27; Congress' legislative agencies (Library of Congress, congressional employees, etc.), 19; White House office, none...
Among possible motives of Bulgaria's Communist government were: 1) a horde of homeless, propertyless refugees, arriving as winter began, would severely tax the strained Turkish national treasury; 2) it would rid Bulgaria of an unassimilable group, living near its strategic frontiers; 3) it would make even more docile the 600,000 Turkish Moslems who stayed behind; 4) it would provide an excellent avenue for sneaking into Turkey hundreds of Red agents...
Last week, under orders from Ankara, state governors prepared for a rush of refugees. Most of the intended immigrants had been forced to get rid of their land, cattle and shelter; they would die unless allowed to get out. A high-ranking Turk said bitterly: "A few years ago the Erzincan earthquake caused the death of many thousands. It was Kismet and we bowed to it. This today is not Kismet. This is a premeditated disaster sent by the devil in human form...
Cocked Pistol. But the trustbusters have not relented in their war on A & P. They are now trying to force A & P to get rid of its non-retail subsidiaries and to sell its seven retail divisions to separate owners-trying, in short, to divest the Hartfords of their empire. Says Mr. John wryly: "We'd be too crooked to run it." The Hartford brothers have fought back, and fought hard. When they planned a series of full-page ads attacking the trustbusters, A & P's lawyers warned the Hartfords that they might be sent to jail...