Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brighter side, businessmen note that they have fairly easy access to Carter's aides, if not the President himself. For example, after they made clear their stern opposition to Senator Edward Kennedy's bill that would ban conglomerate mergers, they were gratified that the President pointedly did not endorse it. In addition, business people are pleased that Anne Wexler, an assistant to the President, seems to be assuming more responsibility for corporate relations, and they are taking many of their problems to her. Wexler says that business, like all lobbying groups, will never get all that it wants...
...restrain strategic nuclear arms ?might end up, willy-nilly, restricting the development and deployment of some conventionally armed tactical weapons as well. West European strategists and politicians were even more concerned. The West Germans, banned by international agreement from having nuclear weapons, were particularly anxious to have access some day to conventionally armed, ground-launched cruise missiles ? latterday buzz bombs. Throughout SALT
...President came down in favor of a modified restriction on encryption. The practice should be considered a violation of SALT "whenever it impedes" verification. (U.S. intelligence usually knows what information is contained on various channels of telemetry and which channels it must have access to for purposes of verifying compliance?and therefore which channels must not be encrypted, or transmitted in code.) Warnke and Earle were instructed to raise the issue with Semyonov in Geneva. Semyonov complained that the U.S. was trying to use SALT for purposes of espionage rather than verification. Just before Vance was due to meet with...
Such corporate actions only exacerbate the current tremendous imbalance between the political resources of business interests and those of consumer and citizen activists. According to Harvey Shulman, former executive director of Media Access Project, a public interest law firm in Washington...
...right to get its views across. Some first steps that have suggested are federal chartering of corporations, public financing of Congressional elections and strict lobbying disclosure laws. It seems clear that something must be done. We must not allow corporations, by virtue of their special financial status, to dominate access to the media, to the electoral process and to our politicians. We must not allow the voices of ordinary citizens to be drowned out in the name of free speech...