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Republican Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland warns that "cunning will prevail"; the legislators who now vote for record deficits can always find ways to conceal future spending. And what if a recession forces expenditures on programs mandated by law (welfare, for example), above levels that Congress has authorized? Would lawsuits force the federal courts to decide what spending is or is not constitutional? Says Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "The courts would do a line-by-line review of the federal budget," a prospect sure to horrify conservatives who distrust the federal judiciary. The amendment has definite appeal...
Shunted aside by the military takeover, the Communist Party has not recovered. Army officers hardly conceal their contempt for the party, which they consider a source of corruption and mismanagement. At the provincial level, many generals have taken over top party posts, and every factory, service agency or government office has its military commissar...
Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate committee, is pressing on with hearings into a possible conspiracy by the White House and FBI to conceal what might have been damaging information about Donovan. TIME has learned that the original discussions between Reagan's transition team and the FBI about the Donovan appointment were conducted on higher levels than had previously been admitted. In early December of 1980 FBI Director William Webster conferred with Edwin Meese, Reagan's transition chief, about Donovan...
...Secret Service wants to expedite the daily flow of visitors through the security check. They also want to put unsightly security equipment under one roof and conceal it as much as possible. The only practical alternative to the planned new gatehouse was to enclose the portico or porte-cochere. But that seemed aesthetically incompatible with the work of James Hoban, the original White House architect, and McKim, Mead and White, the renovators of the historic building...
...million in his Chase accounts, as well as $50,000 worth of stock in Tong II Enterprises, a profit-making import company that Moon controlled. Convicted with him was his top financial aide, Takeru Kamiyama, 40, who was charged with helping the evangelist prepare false tax returns to conceal the income, attempting to block the subsequent Government investigation by submitting phony backdated documents, and lying to a grand jury...