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...That dissent, ordered by the White House and based on concern that the code would restrict free speech and free trade, touched off a wave of outrage, much of it in the U.S. Dr. Stephen Joseph, the top health official at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and Eugene Babb, the agency's top nutrition expert, resigned their jobs in protest. Joseph called the vote "contrary to the best interests of my country, inexplicable to my professional colleagues . . . and damaging to the health and growth of the world's children." Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts convened...
...record and disclose anything that might be construed as a bribe. The FBI and CIA were restricted, especially with respect to wiretaps. The only move toward greater secrecy was a restriction on Government access to taxpayer records, because President Nixon had used IRS audits and prosecutions to punish dissent...
Curtailing dissent...
...president should tolerate a power-hungry Secretary of State unable to see the need for calm loyalty--or reasoned dissent on real issues--in a world where saber-rattling can easily lead to war. If President Reagan had wanted an ambitious and militaristic secretary hell-bent on bolstering his own-influence, he'd have chosen Woody Hayes or J.R. Ewing '54. As soon as the President recovers, we urge that he begin looking for a Secretary of State who can tell the difference between self-interest and the national interest...
...villains may win out, at least for the time being. Soviet tanks are poised on the country's frontiers, Russian propaganda is increasingly critical of the independent Polish union Solidarity, and almost every other sign points to the possibility of an invasion or a quieter "police action" to repress dissent in Poland. And that presents a difficult problem for those in the West who have watched the Poles with such hope...