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Khomeini took that step to end a deadlock between the parliament and the "guardian council," a twelve-member constitutional watchdog committee, which for religious reasons had blocked needed reform legislation. Still, his questionable action offended many right-wingers. Said one ayatullah: "It is bad enough that his understanding and application of the [mandate] are faulty and selfish. His decision to suspend Islamic law for political expediency is apostasy. If his so-called Islamic republic cannot survive the application of God's law, then there is something wrong with his system. God does not make defective laws...
...short time--hey filled an entire section of one day's Boston Globe--and the legislature eventually did enact three laws to reform the system for awarding contracts. But Ward questions the determination of state officials to attack the problem, recalling that the first appointee to the new watchdog office of Inspector General, a post created in response to the commission's report, said in his first press conference that he did not think there really is much corruption in Massachusetts. Remarks like that turn away the "sharp young lawyers" a reformer's office badly needs, Ward says, adding, "They...
...Reagan Administration has done little to dispel the glow. As part of his budget-cutting efforts, Reagan has proposed dismantling the U.S. Department of Energy that was set up four years ago as a watchdog of the nation's energy supplies. Meanwhile, widespread chatter about a worldwide oil "glut" has further calmed nerves, and proof of abundant supplies has been readily at hand at the gasoline pump, where prices have actually been falling...
...regulations were closely scrutinized at the Food Research and Action Center, a Washington-based public interest law firm and consumer watchdog that got much of its money from the first federal agency abolished by Reagan, the Community Services Administration. Workers at FRAC wasted no time preparing the first meal to the new specifications. The paltry elementary school menu: 1½ oz. of hamburger (instead of 2 oz.), one slice of white bread (rather than 1½), six French fries, nine grapes, and a 6-oz. (not 8-oz.) glass of milk. The story was picked up by TV news...
...measures of barley-enough for 18 million meals. Ebla may also have been the first city in the Near East to supplant bartering with use of gold and silver as currency. The complex government was headed by a king, Malik(u), elected peaceably to a seven-year term. A watchdog senate, the wealthy Ab-bu or "elders," wielded backroom power...