Word: reporting
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...center of the dispute over Mexico's vast oil and gas reserves is the autocratic and intellectual Energy Secretary James Schlesinger. TIME'S Washington bureau chief Robert Ajemian talked to Schlesinger and others in the energy field about the controversy that keeps swirling around the Secretary. His report...
Rosalynn, who has been interested in mental health since her days as First Lady of Georgia, was disappointed that so little attention had been paid to the report of her commission last April. Among its 117 recommendations were improvement of care for the chronically mentally ill, incentive funds for states that develop community services and money for research into mental health problems...
...moving again, the U.S. last week asked both Egypt and Israel to send representatives to a Camp David summit with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Chances are that both sides will accept, but on Jerusalem's part not without a certain amount of rancor. Reason: in an annual report to Congress on the state of human rights around the world, Vance's State Department alluded guardedly to reports of "systematic" mistreatment of Arab security suspects from the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Although the department declined to endorse the charges, it concluded that "the accumulation of reports, some...
Israel in the past has conceded that isolated instances of brutality against Palestinian prisoners have happened. The government has also insisted that the maltreatment was against its policy, and that the culprits were punished. What riled Jerusalem this time were leaked reports, first published in the Washington Post, indicating that cables from a former U.S. consular official in Jerusalem went well beyond the carefully hedged assertions of the State Department report...
...timing of the human-rights report was unfortunate. The controversial Washington Post disclosures came at a time of renewed tension on the West Bank. Two weeks ago, in a calculated act of reprisal against the families of suspected terrorists, bulldozers of the Israeli army moved into West Bank villages at dawn and crushed four Arab homes to rubble...