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...million the E.F.A. spent last year went to meet fund-raising and administrative costs. The Senator fears that similar slipshod management may be going on in other children's charities. To correct such abuse, he thinks it may become necessary to require charitable groups to adopt uniform accounting procedures. Other possible strictures: limit the amount they spend on fund-raising promotions and include brief statements of their financial status on all solicitations...
...decide on whether and how the issues can be narrowed." He and the committee Democrats caucused and agreed that St. Clair would be permitted to sit in on the presentation of evidence. Rodino said he would also convene the committee in the second week after the recess to "adopt rules to govern its procedures during the evidentiary hearings...
...false imprisonment, false arrest, or raiding without a proper warrant. The provision is the stepchild of Sam Ervin, the Senate's doughty champion of constitutional rights. Ervin was aided by Paul Verkuil, a professor at the University of North Carolina, in gathering the evidence that convinced Congress to adopt the provision. Says Verkuil: "All of a sudden the Federal Government is going to have to be much more cautious. Now a person who has been abused by federal agents can collect...
Faced with a declining number of American babies available for adoption, more and more U.S. families are trying to adopt Vietnamese children despite the problems. The Holt adoption program alone receives 200 requests each week. Though the Saigon government still considers most of its abandoned children unadoptable (because a parent may still be alive), a few restrictions are being eased. The adoption waiting period has been reduced to five months or less, and an unofficial policy of keeping boys over seven within the country has been relaxed as well. Orphanage limitations against adoptions by parents of a particular faith have...
...Moorer went on to declare that it was "more quiet around the world last week than at any time since I have been Chairman of the Joint Chiefs" - a period covering the last 3½ years. It may have come from a perspective that only a military man could adopt wholeheartedly, but Moorer's assessment was bracing nonetheless. Said one aide, "He didn't mean there weren't some people getting shot in Northern Ireland or that the shelling of Phnom-Penh couldn't resume. But in organized military operations, nothing was happening." The peace...