Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transfer to another city. But all, they say, were harassed by some of the same higher-ups who had rushed to Santella's aid. Top IRS and Treasury Department officials dismissed the whistle-blowers' cries of harassment. But in 1987 an independent IRS "grievance examiner" concluded, in a report obtained by TIME, that their complaints were justified. Nothing was done, however, until Barnard's subcommittee began asking questions in early 1988. The whistle-blowers were reinstated in their former positions, and Santella was forced to resign...
Gibbs, who declined to be interviewed for this report, proclaimed in a nationally televised news show before he left the IRS that he welcomed "a full, fair and complete airing." Since his departure, however, Acting Commissioner Michael Murphy, a career IRS bureaucrat, has been actively lobbying Congressmen to prevent any hearings. He believes that the IRS, which rarely hesitates to expose the peccadilloes of private taxpayers, would be hurt by the publicity. Last month Murphy turned up in Barnard's office to discuss whether the dispute could be ironed out in private, behind closed doors...
...clear-cut agenda who prefers speechmaking to policymaking. "Cavazos hit the ground strolling," says Democratic Congressman Pat Williams of Montana, chairman of the House post- secondary education subcommittee. "He believes the job can get done with Rose Garden ceremonies." An example came earlier this month when Cavazos unveiled a report showing that the performance of U.S. students remained "stagnant." The Secretary said the lack of progress "scared" him, but all he proposed to do was urge Governors and school board presidents to push for higher graduation rates. "He keeps telling us that the problems are disgraceful, but he doesn...
Illinois is one of several states where "prison-impact statements" are attached to any proposed legislation that might lead to more arrests or longer sentences. One such report was connected to a recent bill that would have added ten years to the sentence for any crime committed with a firearm. It estimated that if the law were passed, so many new convicts would be sentenced to longer terms that it would cost $63.5 million to construct and operate the required prison facilities. A committee of the legislature tabled the bill...
...next day Pravda denounced both Ivanov and Gdlyan for their "provocative statements" and announced that a special government commission would investigate the prosecutors' "methods." Ligachev then issued a public denial of the allegations and described them as "political provocation." The commission wasted no time in issuing a lengthy report at week's end that assailed Gdlyan's professional conduct and charged him with "insulting people who were under arrest...