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...report was not well received. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Arlen Specter said it "leaves a lot to be desired" and accused the agency of a "deliberate withholding of information" on Alpirez. House Intelligence Committee member Bill Richardson called the report "not terribly visionary in what needs to be done to improve the CIA's internal procedures." CIA director John Deutch tried to remedy that by announcing a series of reforms, including promises to choose CIA station chiefs more carefully, to "scrub" paid informants more thoroughly and report accurately on human-rights abuses by the unclean, and to require better briefing...
...Warner and Tele Communications Inc. (TCI). This onslaught of special interests has led consumer advocates and other experts to warn that what began as a laudable attempt to promote competition could wind up benefitting media giants far more than their customers. "The people screwed are the consumers," declares Gary Arlen, a telecommunications consultant in Bethesda, Maryland. "Cable rates will rise in the short term before there's rate relief from competition." Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey, the ranking Democrat on the House Telecommunications Subcommittee concurs: "Consumers will wind up tipped upside down, with money shaken out of their pockets to subsidize...
...fellow UC regents to make the decision, shrugged off as "utterly bogus"claims by critics that he is using the issue to bolster his presidential bid. Reaction from his GOP presidential rivals was mixed: while Sen. Phil Gramm applauded the move, and Sen. Bob Dole said nothing, Sen. Arlen Specter heatedly criticized Wilson for using the word "tribalism" in discussing racial preference programs. "Coded racial epithets such as 'tribalism' have no place in public debate," said Specter. "They only serve to fan the flames of racial and gender divisiveness." Specter demanded that Wilson retract the statement; Wilson did not respond...
...disturbing and dangerous aggressors." Senators were also skeptical. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said most militia groups share two fundamental beliefs: fear of government and "a deep strain of racism and anti-Semitism." Dressed in camouflage, former Michigan militia leader Nathan Olson had several testy exchanges with Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.), at one point claiming the Senate represented corruption, and later saying that the federal government is too intrusive and "needs a good spanking to make it behave...
...only difference in the amendments is thatthe first offers across the-board cuts of 0.25percent in all discretionary spending (excludinghealth and labor) whereas the second, co-authoredby Senators Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Nancy LandonKassebaum (R-Kan.), also excludes defense, leavinga 0.58 percent cut for non-defense items. TheSenate recently passed the second amendment 85-14,thereby restoring almost all NIH funding...