Word: cites
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...institutions need to be created, the report states, to prevent countries from nationalizing foreign investments (as many Third World states did unto American multinationals) and to govern other multinational corporations. They cite as a growing problem the "global scope of operations of multinational firms, exceeding the jurisdictions of any individual government...
...treatment resembled the steps Ford had taken previously to calm down Kissinger, who was caught in yet another struggle by Congress to pry secret information out of the Administration. The Secretary had been outraged when the House committee, led by pugnacious New York Democrat Otis Pike, voted to cite him with three counts of contempt of Congress for not obeying its subpoenas to turn over three sets of top-secret documents. They are: 1) State Department recommendations on covert intelligence actions between 1962 and 1972, 2) National Security Council records of the Central Intelligence Agency's covert operations since...
...turned out, Capitol Hill gave Kissinger much more cause for worry than did President Ford. The House committee investigating U.S. intelligence operations recommended that the Secretary be cited with three counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over subpoenaed documents on covert intelligence operations. If the full House votes to cite Kissinger, a move that would be unprecedented, the case would go to the courts. Kissinger said last week the President had directed him to withhold the material on the grounds of Executive privilege. The Secretary, visibly upset and reacting strongly, said he regretted the committee...
Chairman Otis Pike was piqued. His House Select Committee on Intelligence had subpoenaed an internal State Department memo, and Secretary Henry Kissinger had refused to hand it over. Convinced that the Secretary was covering up, Pike pressed his committee to cite Kissinger for contempt of Congress...
Coates was once endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association but sources said that the Independent councilors want him to run to draw votes away from Saundra Graham, a black incumbent city councilor who is a strong advocate of rent control. Those sources cite Coates's position on rent control as evidence of his sympathy with the city's landlords and big real estate developers...