Word: laws
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Therefore the great majority--perhaps 85 per cent--of defense contracts are negotiated. If the Defense Department is not going to be victimized by overcharging, it must have accurate, up-to-date cost data. A little-known law called the "Truth in Negotiations Law" of 1962 protects the government against overcharging. The law aims only at contracts over $100,000, requires contractors to present accurate, up-to-date cost data, and provides for contract adjustment if the data are incorect...
...largest part of the blame. The ABA readily acknowledges this and the committee's recommendations aim primarily at these groups. If local bars adopt the ABA guidelines (as now seems likely) they can expel lawyers who violate them. And the ABA also recommended that police and courts punish law enforcement or judicial officers who violate ABA's proposed restrictions...
...some substantive issues played an important role, in the end political considerations governed the President's actions. And make no mistake about the decisions being Johnson's. The Selective Service System is merely a service organization that follows orders, drafting men for the army in a manner prescribed by law. Although draft director General/Hershey undoubtedly influenced the decision to retain the present order of call, the National Security Council- in effect, the President since he heads it-reached the final decisions. Hershey publicly announced the President's directives and will administer them, but he had little hand in the policy...
...settled, the problem of order of call arose. Every group that has studied the draft in recent years-the Defense Department, the Marshall Commission, and the House-appointed Clark Panel-recommended changing the order of call from the present oldest first to 19-year-olds first. The new law empowered the President to make that change but severely limited his choice of a new selection system. It prohibited random selection as well as a shift that would call the youngest men first in ascending age sequence. He could have chosen to induct men from any or all of the seven...
...future for men over 20 looks bleak. Under law, the Defense Department can institute either of the two plans without Presidential action. A very high Pentagon official said last week that he will make no changes because the plans are "administratively unfeasible." Senator Edward M.Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) will this week propose a comprehensive revision of the draft law, including random selection. Hershey said last week that be could have a lottery working three months after Congress had approved it. The man who could this year push through Kennedy's bill is the same man who killed random selection last...