Word: lowlevel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House blamed the manual on a single, "lowlevel" contract operative, identified pseudonymously as John Kirkpatrick. The still secret inspector general's report apparently suggested that Kirkpatrick resign, two employees be suspended without pay and three others receive formal letters of reprimand. New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan compared the disciplinary measures with canceling "weekend privileges for a month...
California Democrat Norman Mineta, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, complained that the CIA would not allow his group to question the man believed to be the author of the manual, who was described by the Administration as a "lowlevel" operative on contract to the CIA. "We know who he is, and the CIA knows where he is," said Mineta, who maintains that the agent is still employed...
Vermont is not the only state with nonlawyer judges. A 1979 study by the Institute of Judicial Administration and the National Center for State Courts found that there were some 14,000 such judges in 44 states. In every other state these lay judges are functionaries assigned to lowlevel courts, where dockets consist mostly of traffic offenses, minor civil suits and petty criminal offenses. Only in Vermont do lay judges exercise substantial authority in important cases...
Mark Stephens' account is a valuable reminder that Three Mile Island was more than a three-day sensation for the nation's press, and an invaluable restatement of the undeniable truth of the antinuclear movement. Whatever the truth about lowlevel radiation and the rest, there is a real possibility of failure, human or mechanical, risking a meltdown of a reactor core. With attendant disaster...