Word: congress
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What will Congress do about the implications of Voloshen's presence and influence on Capitol Hill? Congress has always been reluctant to police its own ethical standards. But if congressional leaders pursue the Voloshen case energetically, they may catch a scandal of Bobby Baker proportions...
...Actually Schelling's statement was prepared for the National Security and International Operations Subcommittee of the Senate's Government Operations Committee. In fewer than ten pages Schelling generally examined the Planning-Program Budgeting System, told why it would not fit foreign affairs as it did defense, and explained why Congress probably would not want it to be used in the State Department. Scholars from other universities prepared statements on the same subject for the subcommittee...
...units of an army division rebelled yesterday, and more were reported joining them. The government imposed a state of siege and suspended Congress so that it could deal with what it called an "attempt at military sedition...
...This could mean that draft-age citizens will no longer be vulnerable under the old system." Mundt said, "for if Congress follows through on the President's request in the next few weeks, the Administration's reform plan can be operating when it becomes necessary to utilize the draft again...
...country are the clientele of the embassy people and embassy cables do reflect this association." But the Peace Corps mission, May says, is as effective a lobby as any. May explains policy decisions simply in terms of options available to the actor. With possible reaction from the Congress and press, "If the President is told that there is a possibility that some other Carribean area will go the way of Cuba, he really has very little chance to react except by asking how many Marines we can get there on what sort of a timetable...