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...enjoyed two kinds of training the most; firearms and "defensive tactics." I learned how to take a gun away from a man and to tear off his trigger finger into the bargain. I learned to kill a man with no more than a pencil; to maim; to blind...
...Ethics in Government Act, which requires the Attorney General to appoint an outsider to probe damaging accusations against Administration officials, was passed after the Justice Department had already begun looking into the charges against Textron. Civiletti added, however, that he had "very serious doubts that specific information sufficient to trigger the act has been developed indicating that Secretary Miller has violated any criminal law." Civiletti said he was directing the Justice Department "to proceed with all possible speed" to bring before a grand jury any evidence of possible improper dealings by Textron and Bell Helicopter...
...destroy and neutralize the New Left" through its counterintelligence programs. He doesn't mention its plan to divide and dissolve the New Left through a campaign of misinformation, instigation, and harassment. Nor does he mention that J. Edgar Hoover, then director of the FBI and the de facto trigger of American justice, instructed his agents to "prevent the rise of the messiah who could unify and electrify the militant Black nationalist group. Martin Luther King...aspires to this position. King could be a very real pretender for this position should he abandon his supposed obedience to 'white, liberal doctrines...
American steelmen complain that many foreign governments covertly subsidize their steel industries, often dumping products in the U.S. at prices below manufacturing costs in order to keep the mills going at home and prevent unemployment. To fight this practice, the Carter Administration in 1978 implemented the trigger price mechanism (T.P.M.), which sets a floor price below which imports will trigger an investigation for dumping. This floor is based on the cost of manufacturing and transporting a ton of steel made in Japan, which is the lowest-cost producer among big nations...
...major competing industrial country. Still, the Americans complain that foreign competitors are getting a better deal from Washington than Americans are. For one thing, the Europeans, whose manufacturing costs are about $50 a ton higher than Japanese costs, could be dumping even when they sell their steel at trigger prices. For another, some imports are selling below the T.P.M. A General Accounting Office study concluded that from Oct. 1, 1978, to March 1, 1979, the Government applied the T.P.M. so laxly that almost 40% of imported steel came at prices lower than the floor, though only 6% was "significantly below...