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...administration instructed the officer to contact the students involved and ask them to return the memo but did not authorize the room searches. Stephen Rockefeller, dean of the college, said yesterday. Calling the incident a mistake, Rockefeller added that the officer was "over-zealous and exercised bad judgment...
Rockefeller said administration decided to retrieve the memos to protect the privacy of one students named in the document but refused to disclose the nature of the case. The Dartmouth, Dartmouth's college newspaper, reported that the memo concerned a plagiarism cases...
...Administration had cause to be concerned about the seepage of national security secrets. In recent weeks, the Wall Street Journal has disclosed a private State Department memo discussing ways of putting pressure on the military regime in Poland, and the Washington Post has reported on a secret Pentagon study indicating that military costs over the next five years may be $750 billion more than now projected. Furor about this latter leak prompted Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci and some associates to volunteer to take lie-detector tests to show they were not culpable. Even as the White House was considering...
...owes every job of his 15-year public career to Ronald Reagan. He was running a law firm in his home town of Oxnard when they met during Reagan's 1966 gubernatorial campaign; the next year. Clark became Reagan's chief of staff. He devised a "mini-memo" system of single-page briefings, stamped INFORMATION or DECISION, so Reagan would know at a glance whether a response was needed. Among Clark's subordinates then were Edwin Meese III and Michael Deaver. Clark remains very friendly with both, but reminds listeners that they once worked for him. Another...
...upshot of all these changes, even Gorsuch admits, is dismal morale among a once elite corps of highly trained scientists and lawyers. Dissidents within the EPA leak virtually every budget draft and controversial memo to the press and to a growing number of Gorsuch's critics in Congress, including some Republicans. The leaks have made Gorsuch feel even more embattled. She has taken the offensive against the EPA's much praised first decade, claiming a tradition of "mismanagement and no management." Some points are valid. When she took office there was a backlog of more than...