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Still, the RDF is not making very rapid progress because of interservice rivalry and red tape. Marine Lieut. General P.X. Kelley, the determined but frustrated commander of RDF, must spend as much time bickering with Pentagon brass as he does solving problems in the field. At the top of his list of requirements, for example, is equipment to produce large quantities of drinking water. Should his troops be dispatched to parched Saudi Arabia, each man would need twelve gallons a day to keep going. At the moment, all kinds of devices are being considered, including one that would condense water...
...business community has undertaken an "ideological mobilization" to convince the American public that all economic troubles stem from government red tape, government spending, unions, and other factors besides business, Ansara said...
...first." The Senator claims that he has responded to 110,000 pleas for assistance since he was first elected 24 years ago. He takes credit for reclamation projects, rangeland improvements, recreation areas and dairy-farm price supports. He has kept the votes of many conservative businessmen by cutting red tape in Washington for them. He defends his support of the wilderness bill, which would set aside 2.2 million acres in the state, by insisting: "Idaho is not for sale." Some of his supporters are slinging a little mud of their own. They are distributing bumper stickers in heavily Mormon eastern...
Other suits are of a more somber hue: > The right to the tapes. Many Watergate tapes were turned over to the special prosecutor in 1974, and those played at the cover-up trial may be heard by the public at the National Archives. Despite the courts' refusal to respect Nixon's claim that presidential privilege automatically shields other Oval Office conversations from disclosure, Nixon so far has managed to keep secret the 113 tape segments sought by demonstrators arrested during the 1971 May Day protests. Nixon's attorneys maintain that the conversations are harmless. The ex-President...
Portables with a built-in cassette tape facility are heavier and larger than the AM only or the AM/FM types and weigh about 4 lbs. including the batteries, usually four size C cells. In some portables the cassette is for playback only and these are less expensive than those that have a playback/record facility. Those that can record have a condenser microphone built into the case. An interesting feature is that these units generally have a tone control, not found in less expensive portables. The cassette tape section is operated by switches, either plano keys or pushbuttons. The cassette section...