Word: counsels
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Walter Pforzheimer, who retired in 1974 as the CIA'S assistant general counsel, notes that from the time the agency was created in 1947, members were not required to answer any questions about operations-unless the questions were posed by the appropriate congressional oversight committee. When "outsiders" on other congressional committees asked troublesome questions, says Pforzheimer, CIA personnel referred them to the chairmen of the House and Senate Armed Services and Appropriations subcommittees, which had oversight duties. "I have never heard of a case where the director failed to answer the questions of our oversight committees," insists Pforzheimer...
Rejecting the counsel of his top foreign-policy advisers, President Carter last week withdrew the U.S. from the International Labor Organization, the oldest United Nations specialized agency (it was founded in 1919 as an arm of the old League of Nations). Although the I.L.O. has been successful in monitoring and improving labor conditions worldwide, it also has become a forum for Third World and Communist attacks against U.S. Middle East policy and especially against Israel. Both the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce favored the pullout-the first American withdrawal from a U.N. agency. The action will wipe...
PERHAPS THE STRONGEST argument advanced against a Helms trial drew heavily on the complications resulting from efforts by Helms' counsel to subpoena sensitive national security documents to use in the courtroom proceedings, a move that might have forced prosecutors to dismiss the case in midtrial. This contention, however, does not bear up under close scrutiny. All requested materials of this nature would have been referred directly to the trial judge, who would have determined each document's relevance. Handing over this weighty responsibility to a presumably independent judge unhindered by political considerations would have proven to be the wisest move...
...spokesman for Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday that the administration is still considering whether to depart from Harvard's policy of keeping records confidential for 50 years...
Balsam said he later received "a cordial reply" from Bok and Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, but added that the University took no substantive action concerning the union's complaints...