Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faculty oversight committee approved recombinant DNA research--gene splicing--at Harvard, but Wald, placing what he saw to be the community interest over scientific advancement, brought the issue before the Cambridge City Council. Wald's vociferous protests before the council resulted in a temporary city-ordered ban on the research. One Harvard proponent of DNA research says, "Some faculty members feel that it was incessantly self-righteous of him to invoke Mayor Vellucci's help when he couldn't convince committee of his peers to stop the p-3 facility." (The p-3 facility is the laboratory, now under construction...
...number of University officials yesterday condemned the unauthorized release of the report, arguing that it--along with publication of the minutes last year--has weakened the system of visiting committee oversight...
...praised Hussein for playing "a constructive role in reducing tensions in the Middle East." If the fact that Hussein was being paid privately had become known, argues the intelligence community, his effectiveness as a moderate would have been undermined; radicals could more easily have discounted his efforts. The Intelligence Oversight Board questioned the payments to Hussein, but Gerald Ford continued them because Henry Kissinger felt they were vital...
...must have "direct access to the President. Turner apparently already has his ear and that's good. He should have a regular appointment with Carter. He'll have to get up to the Hill a lot. I made 51 formal appearances in less than a year. Congressional oversight has proliferated, and most individual Congressmen realize that oversight now is very different from the past. It's less adversary than it was and much more constructive. Members of Congress are totally informed on the budget, and that's the way it should...
...like to see a four-year term for Congressmen. I think it would be better for them and for the Executive Branch if they weren't running again as soon as they were elected. I would like to see constructive oversight by a fairly small group of congressional committees. I made 63 appearances on the Hill in '75 and '76, which is a record for commissioners of Internal Revenue...