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...here to impeach Mr. Wick or to cause him additional pain," said Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Texas) during a House Subcommittee Meeting last week, adding, "certainly, he and his associates have done a good enough job of that already." Brooks is certainly half right. Last week's revelation that the United States Information Agency (USIA) had blacklisted Coretta Scott King, Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.). Walter Cronkite, Ralph Nader and Brooks himself from a government-sponsored speaking tour has publically embarrassed the agency. Harvard Professors John Kenneth Galbrath. Jorge I. Dominguez and Richard N. Cooper were also deemed untrustworthy...
...extremely serious that USIA counsel Thomas E. Harvey threw out the damning evidence of the blacklist, and more serious still that Wick accepted his assurance that the action was "both legally proper and taken in order to correct improper management practices involved in the selection of speakers." Destroying government documents, especially when they're real activities undertaken during the '50s (one hopes) is not management practice, it is governmental malpractice. Wick reportedly knew the lists had been destroyed--a fact which makes the entire process still more heinous. All against the backdrop of continuing revelations of Wick's nation-wide...
...credit, Ed Meese's name has not been linked to the sort of sordid activity associated with colleagues like Ann Burford, James Watt, Paul Thayer, Rita Lavelle, Charles Wick, or Ray Donovan. Nor can he be derailed for his stands on issues like busing or affirmative action; while we disagree with his opposition to these principles, they are not enough to reject his nomination. Yet Meese's role in many White House actions suggest an ideological rightist view of the law that goes beyond principled conservatism. Not only did Meese push tax exemptions for racist schools and Reagan's secrecy...
Secret taping is not illegal under federal or District of Columbia law. However, a 1981 GSA regulation generally forbids the recording of telephone conversations by Government employees if the other party has not consented, a fact that two USIA general counsels brought to Wick's attention in March...
Late in the week Wick got public support from a close friend, the President. Said Reagan: "He has done a splendid job. I think the whole USIA is far superior to anything that has ever been, and he's going to continue there." Perhaps Reagan phoned his views to Wick, who just might have put them on the record...