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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ethics in Government Act of 1978 institutionalized the job that Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski carried out in Watergate -- investigating and prosecuting alleged wrongdoing by senior Government officials in the Executive Branch. With memories of Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre still fresh, Congress aimed to make any future independent counsel more autonomous. It required that they be appointed by a special panel of three federal judges and shielded from arbitrary presidential dismissal. It was left to the Attorney General, however, to decide, after an initial investigation, whether the accusations were sufficiently credible to justify such an appointment...
Musical humor is no joke to perform, but it can be very funny, and Oil City Symphony, now playing at the downtown branch of Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, is very funny indeed. Whether grimly trying to keep up with the quickening abandon of a mock Hungarian czardas, or haplessly segueing from Verdi's "Anvil Chorus" to Iron Butterfly's In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, or just getting down and funky with a little tune of their own called Beaver Ball at the Bug Club, the Oil City Symphony lets the good times roll, and in the process...
Some of Miranda's information was painstakingly detailed. Charging corruption within the Sandinista directorate, he claimed that Humberto Ortega, under other names, maintains a bank account, No. 58946, in a Swiss branch of the National Bank of Paris. As of last October, Miranda claimed, the account totaled $1,495,596, all of it diverted between 1981 and 1986 from Defense Ministry coffers...
Estelle Sutherland has been at the Coop almost as long as Knox. She spent most of 1984 in retirement. But, when the Coop opened its Medical Center branch in 1985, Sutherland says she was asked to return to work--for "a few days." "I ended up staying," she says, "and I have already been there for two years." Sutherland says she does not plan to retire in the near future...
Doubts must still linger. A CIA analyst will be part of the K-School research team, and his role is as yet undefined. How will he aid such eminent scholars as Professors Richard Neustadt, Ernest May and Gregory Treverton? Given the inherent tension between a highly secretive, intelligence-gathering branch of the government and a private research institution, the role of this analyst needs to be spelled out so as to prevent abuses of academic freedom that might benefit only...