Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Office of Professional Responsibility in the Justice Department, which investigates allegations of wrongdoing inside the department, is investigating Meese's decision to impose a 10-day delay a month and a half ago on an FBI investigation into arms shipments to the Contras...
Priority must be given to stopping these pregnancies through sex education and contraception, followed by programs to encourage youths to delay sexual initiation and assume more responsibility for their actions...
...President violated Section 501 of the National Security Act. Under amendments passed in 1980, the section requires the President to keep the House and Senate intelligence committees "fully and currently informed" of all U.S. intelligence activities. In the case of covert operations, the law requires "prior notice". It permits delay in notifying the full committees "if the President determines it is essential . . . to meet extraordinary circumstances affecting vital interests of the U.S." But when a President invokes this provision, he must still give prior notice to eight top congressional leaders. Then he has to inform all 34 members...
...President blatantly flouted these provisions. While the law does not define "timely fashion," the Democrats insist, that phrase cannot be stretched to cover a period as long as the 18 months of secret negotiations with the Iranians. Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia contends that the permitted delay "might be 18 hours, but not 18 months." Anyway, the Democrats claim, Section 501 demands that prior notice be given at least to the eight senior leaders no matter what. Says Congressman Wright: "The law is not ambiguous." Even some Republicans agreed. Said Indiana's Richard Lugar, outgoing chairman...
Nonetheless, the President was worried enough about what might happen during her absence that she asked Jaime Cardinal Sin, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines, to delay a trip to Rome until she returned. Sin played a crucial role during the February uprising that toppled former President Ferdinand Marcos when he turned a church-run radio station over to the opposition and urged people to go into the streets in protest. Aquino told the Cardinal last week, "I'm not here, you're not here. Pity our poor people...