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...Increasing interest by the executive branch and the Congress in reducing burdens placed on businesses and the general public to supply information to the federal government has led to requirements that all federal information-gathering and publishing activities be evaluated on the basis of necessity and cost-effectiveness...
...attaches security importance. These policy developments are likely to have a restaining effect in varying degrees on academic inquiry, scientific and technological progress, economic activity, and democratic decisionmaking. To the extent that such restraints are now being felt, policy adjustments should be made by the congress and the executive branch before more serious damage is done...
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...
...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...