Word: aspin
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...Once the dust has settled and the CIA is no longer Page One news, many members are likely to lose interest. Closed-door meetings don't allow Congressmen to make speeches or issue press releases or titillate their constituents with inside stories." So argues Democratic Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin. His cynical point is that a congressional committee to oversee CIA operations would be a washout in five years because its members would lose their enthusiasm as soon as the CIA was no longer a big story...
...Aspin may be right, but last week the CIA was Page One news practically every day, thanks to a steady flow of leaks, apparently from members and staff of the House Intelligence Committee. The committee is scheduled to issue by next week a report on its six-month investigation of the CIA-but there may not be much left to reveal by then. Bits and pieces of the 340-page report were leaked to newsmen...
...weapons whose cost is hard to estimate; manufacturers find that they cannot deliver for the agreed price and ask for more money. Rule contends that the Navy should have signed a "milestone" contract, under which the manufacturer is paid legitimate costs plus a set fee. Democratic Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin, a former Defense Department economic analyst, agrees and is demanding a full congressional investigation...
...Aspin, 35, went to Congress armed with an M.I.T. doctorate in economics and two years in the Office of Systems Analysis in Robert McNamara's Defense Department. The second-term Democrat from Wisconsin has waged an all-out war on military waste and cost overruns. He helped expose ballooning costs at Litton Industries' naval shipbuilding yards and mechanical troubles with Lockheed's C-5A cargo plane. Aspin also led the move that cut $1 billion from last year's Defense authorization and shot down flight pay for admirals and generals whose active flying days are behind...
...change these policies, South Dakota Democratic Senator James Abourezk and Wisconsin Democratic Congressman Les Aspin have introduced a bill that would permit a company to operate in only one of the four phases of the industry: production, refining, pipeline transport or marketing. Democratic Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre of New Hampshire has submitted a bill that would force all U.S. oil companies to give up their retail-marketing divisions by year's end. Florida's attorney general, Robert Shevin, has also filed suit seeking to force the 15 major oil firms to divest themselves of their crude-oil-production...