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...Administration plans to send to Congress, perhaps this week, a proposal to repeal the 1976 ban on U.S. assistance for insurgents fighting Angola's Soviet-aligned government. A similar measure, sponsored by Jesse Helms, passed the Senate last year but died in a Senate-House conference. Congressman Stephen Solarz of the House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to fight the measure again. Says Solarz: "If this is the first shot in the President's policy toward Africa, it is sure to backfire...
...kind of march led by the teachers will be perceived as trying to repeal 2 1/2," instead of their stated purpose to protest cuts in city services," she added...
State legislators of the Joint Judiciary Committee yesterday heard public testimony supporting the repeal of Massachusetts' capital punishment...
...company is responsible if the executives had reason to know what the agent was doing. The GAO study recommends that Congress rewrite the law to give clearer guidance to businessmen as to what they can and cannot do to curry favor with foreign customers. It suggests that Congress repeal the criminal penalties connected with the accounting provisions of the law and that the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission clear up the ambiguities in the act's antibribery provisions...
Instead of taking the politically foolish position of calling for repeal of the act, and thus appearing to be in favor of worldwide bribery by American business, the Administration seems to be indicating, whether intentionally or otherwise, that it is prepared to let enforcement of the act languish. Indeed, the President's transition team on the workings of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which shares enforcement jurisdiction over the act with the Justice Department, has recommended decriminalization of bribery...