Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan-Lugar meeting was an ambiguous exercise. Sitting in on the session were Poindexter, Regan, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz. Lugar spent much of his energy at the meeting trying to convince the skeptical majority of his Executive Branch audience that they should not give up too soon on support for the unobstructed democratic process in the Philippines. The normally terse Senator spoke movingly of brave souls like an ordinary Filipino housewife who confronted armed thugs in order to defend her ballot. He urged the White House not to resign itself to a Marcos victory...
During his first hours in Jerusalem, Shcharansky was driven to the Old City and hoisted on the shoulders of a group of well-wishers. Suddenly the group was surrounded by a crowd of Orthodox men, bearded and wearing black suits, protesting against the Mormons, who are building a branch of Brigham Young University on the Mount of Olives. The demonstrators raised a banner ^ addressed to him: SPEAK UP FOR THE RELIGION THAT YOU SACRIFICED YOURSELF FOR. Shcharansky looked troubled as he proceeded to pray at the sacred Western Wall of the Old City. He did not appear eager to become...
Miller left the executive branch for Congress where he served as special assistant to former Sen. John Cooper, working on efforts to halt the production of anti-ballistic missiles, the SALT I negotiations, and other foreign policy questions...
...Executive branch's monopoly on secret information gives it a great edge, says Miller. As staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence chaired by former Sen. Frank Church, Miller was involved in Congress' post-Vietnam, post-Watergate investigation of the role of secrecy in a democracy...
...said the judges. The delegation as such is lawful, but only a member of the Executive Branch can be directed to carry out a law that Congress enacts. The Comptroller General "cannot in any proper sense be characterized as an arm or eye of the Executive," even though he is appointed by the President; among other reasons, he can be fired by Congress. "It may seem odd" to base so momentous a decision on such a "relative technicality," the judges conceded, but the separation of Legislative and Executive powers "consists precisely of a series of technical provisions that are more...