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...Stuart Symington (D-Mo) urged Congress yesterday to halt proliferation of what he calls the "Kissinger syndrome"-a web of White House panels, groups and councils mastered by Henry Kissinger...
...diminishing, the killing goes on. Unemployment and inflation continue to hurt because the efforts to cure them, while sincere, are ineffectual. Many demands of minorities are ignored. Only in foreign policy does there seem to be a sense of direction. "The Administration," insists Missouri's Democratic Congressman James Symington, "seems almost irrelevant to what is happening...
...COULD close my eyes," said Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington last week, "and as I listened to those briefings, I could hear the same thing I heard in Saigon five years ago." What Symington and other war critics thought they detected was another new upsurge in the Indochinese war, caused, paradoxically, by the Administration's complex efforts to extricate the U.S. from Viet...
...Symington's subcommittee also uncovered, for the first time, details of secret agreements with Ethiopia dating back to 1960, under which the U.S. has armed a 40,000-man army at a cost to the American taxpayer of $159 million. Although the extent of U.S. arms assistance to Emperor Haile Selassie is still cloaked by security, State Department officials admit that U.S. bombs and ammunition have been used against insurgent rebels and that U.S. military advisers supervise the training of Ethiopian troops. In defense of this agreement, Assistant Secretary of State David Newsom told the subcommittee that disclosures about...
What can be done about the spread of secrecy in Government? For a start, Congress could investigate-as the Symington subcommittee recommends-the present use of the Espionage Act, various presidential directives and the "executive privilege," all invoked at times to justify unnecessary secrecy classification practices. Congress could beef up its pathetically weak investigatory and budget analysis staffs and strengthen the General Accounting Office-its agency for the policing of disbursement and use of appropriated funds. It could also cut back substantially on discretionary funds granted to the President for use abroad as he sees...