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...about to retire from the spying business. In both capitals, intelligence circles are exploring new ways of gleaning information and emphasizing the prudence of increasing their budgets and staffs. Both agencies are discussing how to redirect funds and manpower to meet fresh challenges. Says Oklahoma's Democratic Senator David Boren of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: "As the arms race is winding down, the spy race is heating...
Only three other senators--Herbert Kohl (D-Wis.), David L. Boren (D-Okla.) and Robert Packwood (R-Ore.)--have chosen to forsake PAC money completely, said Common Cause lobbyist Randy Huwa...
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM. If a bi-partisan House task force does not submit a bill by early March, Oklahoma Democrat David Boren will introduce his own in the Senate. Democrats generally favor campaign-spending limits and use of public funds in campaigns; Republicans oppose both...
...detection in government and industry. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission now demands drug testing of power-plant operators and construction workers, while the Pentagon is drafting regulations to test employees of defense contractors. To help private industry set up its own programs, Utah Republican Orrin Hatch and Oklahoma Democrat David Boren have proposed a Senate bill that would protect employees from abuses and employers from lawsuits by establishing minimum federal standards for workplace testing. Said former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who supports the bill: "When the privacy rights of an individual threaten the health and the safety of others, then...
...This incident proves you can't tell Congress anything without it leaking," said a senior White House aide last week, after the Washington Post reported that President Reagan had authorized unspecified covert action to help oust Panamanian Leader Manuel Antonio Noriega. Not so, said both Democrat David Boren, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and ranking Republican William Cohen. The two Senators got questions from reporters even before the committee was briefed on the finding. That, they charged, meant the Administration had divulged the information to "set up" the committee as being unable to keep secrets...