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Several months ago, Representative Marcy Kaptur and I introduced legislation that would remedy one of the worst aspects of the influence-peddling problem: officials who leave Government service and then market their professional allegiance as lobbyists for foreign interests. The Wolpe-Kaptur bill would prohibit high-ranking officials from lobbying for any foreign principal in the ten years after they leave office. It is outrageous that public service is being used as a training academy for lobbyists who will enrich themselves on $250,000 annual retainers from Singapore and Brazil. Howard Wolpe, U.S. Representative Third District, Michigan Washington...
...more years, in the hope of curtailing the development of a Star Wars system. In the past few months, he had hinted that the Soviets would be willing to accept an extension of 15 years, or even less. Reagan had offered a plan that would prohibit deployment of SDI for 7½ years. In Iceland both sides tentatively accepted a ten-year extension of the ABM treaty...
...procurement, but state in the budget, and in my written report to the Congress, that none of those funds will be spent and no decision will be made to deploy an ABM system until after we make every possible effort to negotiate an agreement with the Soviets, which will prohibit deployment of defenses by either side and will limit offensive forces as well...
...they would, it would lead to a dramatic increase in the offensive forces of each side. We therefore concluded that we would proceed with the development of MIRVs, but we would make no decision to deploy them until we had explored fully the possibilities of negotiating an agreement to prohibit defenses. If such a treaty was negotiated, the MIRV program would be scrapped...
Largely confined to common rooms, undergraduates must also answer to College regulations, which prohibit parties on 15 weekend nights a year, including the nights before LSATs and those during reading and exam period...