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...strongly supported her during the bitterly contested election. Among them: Jaime Ongpin, 47, the chairman of the Benguet Mining Corp. and one of her main campaign strategists, who was named Finance Minister, and Jose Concepcion, 54, a businessman and head of the National Movement for Free Elections, a citizens' watchdog group, who became Minister of Trade and Industry...
...budget. But the dispute is muted because Casey is perhaps the only official in the entire Government whose spending proposals cannot even be discussed in public. They are buried in the Pentagon budget and evaluated in detail only by the 15 Senators and 16 Representatives on the watchdog committees. For all their misgivings, the committees approved spending increases that averaged 20% annually during the early Reagan years. Best guess as to the current total: $2 billion...
What all the congressional pressure for more disclosure has accomplished so far is as difficult to evaluate as everything else about the CIA. The agency has called off some dubious operations that aroused strong opposition from the watchdog committees; one example was an attempt to destabilize the Marxist government of Suriname in South America. More generally, for good or ill, the CIA seems unable to keep any sizable operation truly secret anymore: ! U.S. bankrolling of the contra rebels in Nicaragua leaked out swiftly, and the Administration and Congress are now debating quite overtly the amount and type of "covert...
There was some tough talk last month at a meeting in Washington of the normally staid American Association of University Professors. In an impassioned address during a daylong symposium on academic freedom, Chancellor Joseph Murphy of the City University of New York blasted a new right-wing watchdog group that he said was recruiting students "as a corps of thought police." The group, Accuracy in Academia, was founded last summer by Militant Conservative Reed Irvine as an offshoot of his flourishing (35,000 members) Accuracy in Media, which makes a business of challenging perceived liberal bias in major news organizations...
...unfair contest on Feb. 7. "We believe Marcos will do his worst," says Laurel. Addressing such doubts, the President has announced that foreign officials will be permitted to monitor the balloting. The opposition is also pressing for accreditation of the National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections, a watchdog group created to help police the 1984 parliamentary elections, in which opposition candidates won a record 59 seats. COMELEC has not yet approved the opposition outfit's application to watch the polls...