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...making the switch from agent to tattletale author, Snepp made a mistake: he ignored the written pledge that CIA employees make never to publish "any information" about the organization without submitting it for prior review. Last week, in a toughly worded ruling, the Supreme Court slammed Snepp hard for his transgression. By a 6-3 vote, the court ruled that the CIA secrecy pledge is very much a legally enforceable contract. In their terse nine-page opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger and the other five men in the majority noted that Snepp had "deliberately" violated his "obligation" to his former...
When the Sasse scandal first set alarm bells ringing, Lloyd's commissioned a review of exchange procedures from an independent "working party" headed by Sir Henry Fisher, president of Wolfson College, Oxford. Lloyd's Chairman Green expects the report, due this spring, will give him the evidence to convince Parliament that a new act is necessary. Says he: "We operate largely under the 1871 act, which creaks and groans like mad. We have to have rules to back our authority. We need discipline in the system...
Articles submitted to the Journal are routinely forwarded to at least two experts for review and comment and then discussed by the staff at a Thursday lunch, after which papers may be sent back to the authors for revisions and, often, rewriting. Says the Journal's editor, Dr. Arnold Relman: "The conclusions have to be not only warranted but also readable." So exacting is the process that only 10% to 15% of the 4,000 papers received each year are printed. No one objects to that meticulous procedure. In fact, it has helped make the Journal the world...
Ryan said yesterday the students on the review committee will meet to discuss their approach to and aims for the group. "Right now we're still in the preliminary stages," she said...
...said he expects the review committee to meet throughout the spring and fall before making recommendations to him. He added that he would then submit the group's proposals to the appropriate group, such as the Faculty Council or CUE, if necessary...