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...will be heard. My only demand is enforcement of the constitution. We would like freedom of expression and we want a government of the people by the people. That has been our message." Among his requests: the appointment, as called for by the constitution, of a five-mullah watchdog committee in parliament...
Civiletti ordered two separate investigations: one by the internal watchdog unit that oversees FBI activities and a second by the Justice Department's criminal division. It immediately dispatched investigators to Birmingham to begin learning the truth about the mysterious Gary Thomas Rowe...
...Requires that officials, if challenged, be able to explain to a new watchdog agency, the Information Security Oversight Office, or to a court the reason a document if not kept classified could harm national security...
...will be host to 16,000 Communist and left-wing students from around the world (including 400 Americans) at a World Youth Festival dedicated to the theme of "anti-imperialist solidarity." Brigades of volunteers from the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, as Cuba's auxiliary political watchdog apparatus is called, are working six days a week to spruce up the capital for what promises to be a giant pep rally on behalf of national liberation movements-and, by implication, on behalf of Cuba's own policy of armed intervention in Africa. "We must be reminded from...
When he first took over, Califano claims, "HEW was in a state of absolute organizational disarray." He cites the report by HEW'S inspector general that the department wastes $6 billion annually. To try to straighten out the programs and cut down the waste, Califano set up a watchdog bureau similar to the President's Office of Management and Budget. The office has department-wide oversight of budgeting, planning, procurement, and reorganization. Though HEW deals with human beings and not hardware, Califano wants to quantify program goals as much as possible. He has set up targets for reducing waste...