Word: recommended
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...John P. Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Donald Cooke, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Cornell, the Association decided last October to set up a committee to study the possibility of political pressure to abolish the oath and recommend appropriate action...
...report of a committee of experts to the American Bar Association has again focused public attention on nagging flaws in the Electoral College system. The committee has recommended abolition of this anachronistic backwater of past days, proposing instead direct popular election of the President. In case no candidate should receive more than 40 per cent of the total vote, they recommend a run-off between the two major contenders...
...Powell, who lives in San Juan, whether she has been violating the law requiring congressional assistants to work either in Washington or in their Congressman's home district. As a result of her failure to appear, Subcommittee Chairman Wayne Hays of Ohio said that he would recommend that she be removed from the congressional payroll, and that steps be initiated to cite her for contempt of Congress...
Nonetheless, some snakes are beginning to appear in Adam's Eden. The Hays subcommittee will make its report before the 90th Congress convenes, and last week one of its members, Republican Representative William Dickinson of Alabama, suggested that the investigating group may recommend criminal prosecution of Powell. California Representative Lionel Van Deerlin has threatened to block Powell from being seated by invoking a House rule giving any member the right to challenge the swearing in of another (TIME, Dec. 9). Moreover, for all of Congress' traditional reluctance to criticize its members, Congressmen are under growing pressure from constituents...
...study a whole new defense system: the Defense Planning Committee. They also set up the new seven-nation Nuclear Planning Group, of which West Germany is a key member. The group's mission will be to select targets, deploy NATO's 7,000 warhead nuclear force, and recommend when, if ever, to fire in anger. But the ownership of the weapons and final decision to fire remain with the U.S. The hope is that the new committee will satisfy the West German demand for full-fledged treatment in NATO, while at the same time retaining absolute U.S. nuclear...