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...Meese's request, Smith last week asked a select panel of three senior federal judges to appoint a special prosecutor with a wide latitude to look into charges that Meese was helped financially by people who later got federal jobs, failed to report one loan and a stock purchase, got special treatment in shifting his Army Reserve status and knew more than he has admitted about documents from the 1980 Carter campaign that ended up in his own files. The prosecutor is expected to be named this week. Even if the investigation is completed within six months and Meese...
Even so, the army is determined to continue carrying out a ten-week preelection offensive against the guerrillas. The problem, U.S. military advisers argue, is that military operations will quickly be blocked by lack of ammunition and other supplies unless the Administration's emergency aid request receives congressional approval soon. In its current offensive, the Salvadoran soldiers have been using munitions at a much faster rate than normal. Says one U.S. official: "You can't just get on the phone and order more ammunition for delivery next Tuesday...
...argued, too, that my request for access to certain documents would not involve a breach of confidentiality. I was interested only in those documents dealing with Harvard's relations with the FBI, and those could be made available in a form which allowed inferences to be drawn as to policy without revealing the names of informants, either those that Harvard used internally or those who reported for Harvard to the FBI. What President Bok presented as an argument based on confidentiality was in reality. I said, a claim to immunity based on executive privilege. Those who had formulated a particular...
...moral postures this with President Bok's administrative position. I do not expect a resuscitation of my correspondence with them, but my correspondence with Harvard continues fitfully, and I can report to The Crimson that President Bok's policy on official secrecy continues. In response to my request for access to archival materials at the Law School, Assistant Dean Stephen M. Bernard informed me that no waiver of the 50-year rule would be granted. The reasons? One,"--the task of going through these materials to extract the ones relevant to your request was daunting and would involve my spending...
...Higley said the seven-day period was not long enough and that he will request a further extension today. The city last week hired an outside firm, TRC Environmental Consultants of Hartford, Connecticut, to investigate lab security and safety. The Cambridge City Council also recently launched its own scientific advisory committee to make recommendaions on technical matters, although neither group has had time to complete its inquiries...