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...Foreign Service Association (A.F.S.A.), the gentlemanly union that represents the interests of U.S. diplomats, this salary scale is about 10% lower than that of the Federal Civil Service. To be sure, like other American Government employees abroad, diplomats also receive a housing allowance, a cost-of-living provision and access at some posts to certain duty-free goods, such as liquor, cigarettes and gasoline. But high prices and the sinking dollar have wiped out these advantages, leaving the diplomats with little more than the special prestige of being an elite corps. The House of Representatives is currently considering...
Federal officials intent on shielding records from journalists, biographers and other inquirers may have hit upon a very simple way: remove the files from the agency involved before anyone seeks access under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In a case involving transcripts and summaries of telephone conversations that Henry Kissinger recorded during his years in Government, the Supreme Court last week ruled 5 to 2 that the State Department had no obligation to retrieve those records for members of the public...
...under wraps, but that those from his 3½ years at State were within the reach of the FOIA. In December 1976, shortly before he left office, Kissinger donated these documents to the Library of Congress (which is not covered by the FOIA) under a complex deed that limits access to them until the year 2001 at the earliest. Since Kissinger's donation came before the FOIA requests were made by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and other groups, the Supreme Court concluded that State could not be said to be wrongfully "withholding" the documents...
...wrote what many say is history at its best, Shawcross doesn't like to look behind. He worries about what is going on in Cambodia now. He worries about British reporters who, bound and gagged by that country's Official Secrets Act, will never gain access to documents that Americans can poke into...
...promised access to the F-15s was hailed by the Egyptians as proof of their "equal footing" with Israel as faithful allies of the U.S. in the Middle East. In addition to asking Congress to approve this military aid package, involving $4 billion in credits over the next five years, the Carter Administration plans to propose an extra $200 million in aid to help Cairo finance the weaponry...