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A plan devised by Texas Republican Congressman Richard Armey passes the onus to a nonpartisan Pentagon commission, which will draw up a list of unnecessary bases. To stop the closings, the legislators would have to reject the entire list and probably have to override a presidential veto. Possible savings for...
Organized by Harvard's Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, the 21-member commission conducted a 13-month study of an institution that was born at the turn of the century when Teddy Roosevelt invited the White House press corps in out of the rain. The once...
Commission members insist that the report is "party blind," but the project is clearly a reaction to the heavy-handed news management practiced by the Reagan Administration. Reagan has held fewer press conferences than any other TV-era President -- an average of about six a year, compared with 22 1/2...
The commission recommends that the next President hold a minimum of two daytime press conferences a month plus six evening sessions a year. Dukakis embraced that formula; Bush refused to commit himself. However, as the report points out, most modern Presidents, including Reagan, promised to be more accessible to reporters...
Customs officials say the initial C-Chase probe of narcotics "greenwashing" in Florida, which started in 1986, led them to BCCI's drug-money network. Posing as money launderers, "Musella," "Erickson" and other agents gradually infiltrated drug-trafficking circles. In May 1986 Gonzalo Moro Jr., reputed to be the chief...