Editorial Toughest Test Yet Pushes Carter to Taft Hartley Crisis
President Carter employs Taft Hartley to force coal miners back to work amid a shortage. Miners and United Mine Workers push back, warning widespread noncompliance. The energy crisis deepens as eastern states face dwindling coal supplies and job losses.
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Carter
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Louie the Louse and the Rights of a Book Deal
A fictional scene centers on Louie the Louse detained by district attorneys. He refuses to answer about accomplices in a Brink's robbery claiming his story is protected by media and literary rights. The Heartongue agency and Newsweek weigh in as subpoenas and copyright issues clash with justice.
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Garden City High School
University of Pennsylvania
Heisman
Washington
Louie the Louse
Heartongue Literary Agency
Heartongue
Louis the Louse
Brink's
Rolling Stones
Cliff Robertson
Literary Guild
Louis
Louie
Sgt. Brophy
Newsweek
Washington Post
New York
Grand Jury
FBI
Justice Department
CIA
Stansfield Turner
Justice
Snepp
Random House
Travel industry under fire overbooking ad items and changes
Federal Trade Commission investigators spent two years examining the travel industry and conclude tour promoters engage in hotel overbooking fail to provide advertised items and do not always notify changes in tour packages. The report says such abuses raise costs and inconveniences for travelers.
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World
Rockies
Bimini
End of the World
Federal Trade Commission
Michael Pertschuk
Marc Smolensky
Consumer Protection
Albert Kramer
Las Vegas
Hawaii
FTC Probes Travel Industry Report Highlights Consumer Harm
The Boston regional office subpoenaed more than 90 wholesale travel operators 39 airlines and about 25 hotel chains. Investigators found delays cancellations and undisclosed changes to tours plus weak refunds and opaque agency disclosures. The report notes over 2 500 consumer complaints and calls hotel overbooking a key issue.
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Boston
Kramer
U.S
Leonid Brezhnev
Carter and Civil Service Reform Sparks on Whistle Blowers
Mary McGrory analyzes President Carter’s civil service reform pledge to shield whistle blowers while noting a contrasting stance in the Snepp case. The CIA suit seeks royalties and damages after Snepp published Decent Interval about Saigon. Civil libertarians debate security versus transparency amid presidential surveillance support.
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Mary McGrory
Washington
John Mitchell
Jimmy Carter
National Press Club
Frank Snepp
CIA
Saigon
Justice Department
Snepp
Carter
Ronald Humphrey
David Truong
FBI
Henry Kissinger
William E. Colby
U.S
Vietnam
Graham Martin
Thomas Palgar
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