Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Noting that the law makes no distinction between offensive and defensive hostilities, Republican Senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut challenged his colleagues to face their constitutional duties squarely as the branch of Government empowered to decide whether to declare war. A Senate vote to invoke the law had lost, 50 to 41, only a week earlier. Weicker accused both the President and Congress of being unwilling to take a stand on the military situation in the gulf. "Both the Congress and the President would prefer a fog, where if things go wrong, nobody can find you," Weicker charged...
Indeed, neither branch was eager to force the war-powers issue just after the politically popular U.S. military action. To mollify the Senate and House, Reagan sent letters to both bodies reporting on the U.S. seizure of the Iran Ajr and defending it as "necessary to protect U.S. vessels and U.S. lives from unlawful attacks." More such action would follow if needed, Reagan wrote. He made this report, he explained, in a "spirit of mutual cooperation toward a common goal." The ploy may have helped defuse the congressional rebellion. The Senate postponed until this week any decision on whether...
...falls short of the safeguards" contained in an earlier proposal put forward by Reagan and Wright. The White House has interpreted Arias' visit as a snub. "How would the Costa Ricans like it if our President were to accept an invitation from their legislature, pretty much bypassing their executive branch?" observed an Administration official. Costa Rican officials based in Washington deny that Arias is intentionally insulting Reagan. In fact, shortly after Wright extended his invitation, the Costa Ricans suggested a meeting between Reagan and Arias. Last week White House officials finally scurried to arrange a get-together, and at week...
...swindle was the power that local Communist chiefs have over regional banks. According to Yugoslav press accounts, Abdic pressured the local branch of Privredna Banka, the Bosnian central bank, into providing guarantees for a steady flow of unsecured promissory notes issued by Agrokomerc. The guarantees made it possible for Agrokomerc to sell the notes for cash to other banks. Abdic plowed the proceeds into his ambitious development plans for the company and lavish community projects for Velika Kladusa, including an Olympic-size swimming pool...
...fraud began to unravel last January when, following a warehouse fire, police discovered falsified bank orders in Agrokomerc's records. Newspapers, relying on government leaks, began running stories on the scandal in August. Earlier this month the entire governing boards of both Agrokomerc and the Privredna Banka branch were fired, while Abdic and seven others were jailed on charges of "counterrevolutionary activities." Following demands for a purge of the Bosnian hierarchy from Communist leaders in Belgrade, the capital, 50 functionaries were expelled from the republic's party organization...