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Two western senators have warned of a growing crisis in critical minerals and metals and the need for strengthening policies to correct the problem. In a major address before an aviation oriented group in New York, Sen. Barry M. Goldwater. R-Ariz. said he was “deeply troubled about the alarming deterioration of our defense industrial base… Continue reading World Minerals Play Part in National Defense

Both violent crime and property crime registered their largest jumps in a dozen years during 1980 and the increase was pervasive throughout every region of the country. his alarming situation. reported by the Justice Department, was brought to the attention of the U. S. Senate recently by Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-Rl. whoattributed much of the… Continue reading Reducing Drug Trafficking Will Reduce Crime

A freshman U.S. senator from Wisconsin is proposing a plan for government to “fire a shot across the bow” of government agency heads and midlevel bureaucrats who are blase about waste. : Sen. Robert Kasten says fthe current estimates of govemment waste, fraud and abuse are as much as $100 billion a year or one… Continue reading Make Agencies Acccuntuble

Domestic and foreign travel at taxpayer expense should be under tight control at all times – but especially during “Lame Duck” periods. This is evident in a General Accounting Office (GAO) study showing “excessive travel” by outgoing administration employees during the November 1980 through January 1981 Lame Duck period. Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-lll., who… Continue reading Le1’s Ax ‘Lume Duck’ Travel

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, recently signed into law by President Carter, is being hailed in business circles and by lawmakers who supported its passage. An outgrowth of a long period of hearings, the act is intended to reduce by 25 percent over three years the volume of reports, time required to fill out… Continue reading Paperwork Act Faces Test

President Woodrow Wilson once said: “The ‘ business of government is to organize the common interest against the special interest.” Rep. Nicholas Mavroules. D-Mass. used that quotation the other g ”specia.l.4x t” and “single-is ‘ ‘ ro apid growth of these groups during the past decade has driven a wedge between elected government and the… Continue reading Beware the Special Interests

The White House reoortedlv is raising the possibility of not filling the position of Assistant Secretarg of State for Human ights or even abolishing the Human Rights Bureau – and the idea is not without merit. The Reagan Administration’s nominee for the position having been shot down, confusion and uncertainty permeate the human rights scene.… Continue reading How Vital Human Rights Post?

lt’s possible for everyone to make a lot of “good news-bad news” jokes about the air traffic con-V trollers’ walkout. The bad news is that airlines initially are going to lose money, and for some time. they will have less passenger carrying capacity and less incentive to try for new markets. The bad news also… Continue reading We Applaud Reagan Stance

A few of President Reagan’s nominess for high federal office have run into trouble at Senate confirmation hearings. That isn’t likely to be the case with Dr. Arthur Bums, esteemed American in the field of economics and finance, selected for the post of ambassador to West Germany. Burns distinguished himself in high level posts in… Continue reading Burns o Boost for Bonn, U.S.

President Reagan’s invitation to the Soviet Union to join the United States in negotiating an end to the nuclear arms race brought to a head whirlwind of proposals for accomplishing a weapons freeze and cutback. 1 As though everybody suddenly discovered the enormity of the risks nuclear weapons pose for humanity, many freeze andlor reduction… Continue reading World Future Relies on Nuclecrr Freeze