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1969Best.-Nr. 89990Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1969. Presumed First Edition First printing. Stiff Wraps. Very good. V 1 92 1 pages. Compiled by the Subcommitee on National Security and International Operations. From Foreword written by Chairman Henry M. Jackson- In our continuing study of the effectiveness of this country's national security methods staffing and processes we thought it would be useful to understand more fully the negotiating methods of the Soviet Union. In this connection the subcommittee staff was asked to prepare a short selection of analytic materials on the Soviet approach to international negotiation drawing on both Western and Russian sources. The National Security Subcommittee is an oversight committee that holds the federal government accountable to taxpayers with a focus on national security homeland security foreign operations immigration and emergency management. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1969Best.-Nr. 87530Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1969. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. v 1 363 3 pages. Maps. Tabular data. Some page discoloration noted. The key witnesses were: Lt. Gen. Francis C. Gideon; Rear Adm. Draper L. Kauffman; Col. Ernest W. Pate; Lt. Gen. Robert H. Warren; and James M. Wilson. The hearings of the Subcomittee were designed to detail on a country-by-country basis United States programs personnel and facility in the troubled Far East excluding Vietnam. Their aim with the help of Administration witnesses was to gather for the Senate the best and most complete information available; and to this end Messrs. Pincus and Paul of the Subcommittee staff had already spent seven months gathering inforamtion.Becasue of the national security implications of some of the information to be dwelt on and in order to permit frank discussion of all pertinent matters the initial fact finding hearings were to be held in executive session. Let it be noted however that as complete a record as security consideration permit will be released to the public as rapidly as possible. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
2006Best.-Nr. 84998Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good/No dust jacket issued. iii 1 118 4 pages. Robert Jones Portman born December 19 1955 is an American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Ohio since 2011. A member of the Republican Party Portman was the 35th director of the Office of Management and Budget OMB from 2006 to 2007 the 14th United States trade representative from 2005 to 2006 and a U.S. representative from 1993 to 2005 representing Ohio's 2nd district. In 1993 Portman won a special election to represent Ohio's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He was reelected six times before resigning upon his appointment by President George W. Bush as the U.S. trade representative in May 2005. As trade representative Portman initiated trade agreements with other countries and pursued claims at the World Trade Organization. In May 2006 Bush appointed Portman the director of the Office of Management and Budget. In 2010 Portman announced his candidacy for the United States Senate seat being vacated by George Voinovich. He easily defeated then-Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher and was reelected in 2016. On January 25 2021 he announced that he would not seek a third term in 2022. On April 18 2006 Bush nominated Portman for Director of the Office of Management and Budget replacing Joshua Bolten who was appointed White House Chief of Staff. Portman said that he looked forward to the responsibility adding "It's a big job. The Office of Management and Budget touches every spending and policy decision in the federal government". Bush expressed his confidence in Portman saying "The job of OMB director is a really important post and Rob Portman is the right man to take it on. Rob's talent expertise and record of success are well known within my administration and on Capitol Hill." The U.S. Senate confirmed him unanimously by voice vote on May 26 2006. As OMB director from May 2006 to August 2007 Portman helped craft a $2.9 trillion budget for fiscal year 2008. The Cincinnati Enquirer wrote "The plan called for making the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent at a cost of more than $500 billion over the five-year life of the proposal. It requested a hefty increase in military spending along with reductions in low-income housing assistance environmental initiatives and health care safety-net programs." Portman is said to have been "frustrated" with the post calling the budget that Bush's office sent to Congress "not my budget his budget" and saying "it was a fight internally." Edward Lazear of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers said that Portman was the leading advocate for a balanced budget while other former Bush administration officials said that Portman was the leading advocate for fiscal discipline within the administration. On June 19 2007 Portman resigned as OMB director citing a desire to spend more time with his family and three children. Democratic Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee Kent Conrad expressed regret at Portman's resignation saying "He is a person of credibility and decency that commanded respect on both sides of the aisle." U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1999Best.-Nr. 84302Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1999. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. New. 3121 total 4-volume set wraps footnotes. This is an unopened set shrink-wrapped with stiff cardboard at top and bottom sealed with tight plastic bands north/south and east/west. Some indentation of the cardboard brom the banding noted. This four-volume set contains the full record of the U.S. Senate proceedings in the impeachment trial of President Clinton the only Presidential impeachment trial of the 20th century. Volume I contains preliminary proceedings; Volume II contains floor trial proceedings; Volume III contains depositions and affidavits; Volume IV contains statements of Senators regarding the impeachment trial of President Clinton. The impeachment of Bill Clinton occurred when Bill Clinton the 42nd president of the United States was impeached by the United States House of Representatives of the 105th United States Congress on December 19 1998 for "high crimes and misdemeanors". The House adopted two articles of impeachment against Clinton with the specific charges against Clinton being lying under oath and obstruction of justice. Two other articles had been considered but were rejected by House vote. Clinton's impeachment came after a formal House inquiry which had been launched on October 8 1998. The charges for which Clinton was impeached stemmed from a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Clinton by Paula Jones. During pre-trial discovery in the lawsuit Clinton gave testimony denying that he had engaged in a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The catalyst for the president's impeachment was the Starr Report a September 1998 report prepared by Ken Starr Independent Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee. Clinton was the second American president to be impeached the first being Andrew Johnson who was impeached in 1868. The approved articles of impeachment would be submitted to the United States Senate on January 7 1999. A trial in the Senate then began with Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding. On February 12 Clinton was acquitted on both counts as neither received the necessary two-thirds majority vote of the senators present for conviction and removal from office—in this instance 67. On Article One 45 senators voted to convict while 55 voted for acquittal. On Article Two 50 senators voted to convict while 50 voted for acquittal. Clinton remained in office for the remainder of his second term. In April 1999 about two months after being acquitted by the Senate Clinton was cited by federal District Judge Susan Webber Wright for civil contempt of court for his "willful failure" to obey her orders to testify truthfully in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. For this Clinton was assessed a $90000 fine and the matter was referred to the Arkansas Supreme Court to see if disciplinary action would be appropriate. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1993Best.-Nr. 82711Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1993. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. xii 1223 5 pages. Footnotes. Some cover wear. The POW/MIA issue has proven almost as emotional and controversial as the Vietnam War itself. The Committee has sought to transform this troubled atmosphere by encouraging all participants in the debate to join forces in an objective search for the truth. Because the overriding hope and objective of the Committee was to identify information that would lead to the rescue or release of one or more live U.S. POWs the Committee gave first priority to investigation of issues related to our most recent war the conflict in Vietnam. Nevertheless substantial resources were devoted to seeking and reviewing information concerning Americans missing from World War II the Korean War and the Cold War. The Committee has operated on a nonpartisan basis with a nonpartisan staff directed by Members equally divided between the two parties. The Committee sought the guidance of family members activists veterans' organizations and many others about how to conduct the investigation where to focus whom to consult and what issues to address. Former POWs were contacted and asked to share their knowledge and all previous inquiries and investigations on the subject were reviewed. The Committee requested and received access to the records of a wide range of U.S. Government agencies including intelligence agencies and the White House. Unlike previous investigators we refused to accept "national security" as grounds for denying information and obtained assurances from the highest levels of government that no relevant information would be withheld. The Select Committee was created because of the need to reestablish trust between our government and our people on this most painful and emotional of issues. It was created to investigate and tell publicly the complete story about what our government knows and has known and what it is doing and has done on behalf of our POW/MIAs. It was created to examine the possibility that unaccounted for Americans might have survived in captivity after POW repatriations at Odessa in World War II after Operation Big Switch in Korea in 1953 after Cold War incidents and particularly after Operation Homecoming in Vietnam in 1973. It was created to ensure that accounting for missing Americans will be a matter of highest national priority not only in word but in practice. It was created to encourage real cooperation from foreign governments. It was created in short to pursue the truth at home and overseas. Whether the Committee has succeeded in its assigned tasks will be a matter for the public and for history to judge. Clearly we cannot claim nor could we have hoped to have learned everything. We had neither the authority nor the resources to make case by case determinations with respect to the status of the missing. The job of negotiating conducting interviews visiting prisons excavating crash sites investigating live-sighting reports and evaluating archival materials can only be completed by the Executive branch. This job long frustrated by the intransigence of foreign governments will take time to complete notwithstanding the recent improvements in cooperation especially from Vietnam. The Committee takes considerable pride however in its contribution through oversight to improvements in the accountability process and in the record of information and accomplishment it leaves behind. That record includes the most rapid and extensive declassification of public files and documents on a single issue in American history. It includes a set of hearings and Committee files in which virtually every part of the POW/MIA controversy has been examined. It includes disclosure after disclosure about aspects of U.S. policy and actions that have never before been made public. It includes a rigorous public examination of relevant U.S. intelligence information. It includes an exposure of the activities of some private groups who have sought inexcusably to exploit the anguish of POW/MIA families for their own gain. It includes a contribution to changed policies that is reflected on the ground in Vietnam in the form of unprecedented access to prisons military bases government buildings documents photographs archives and material objects that bear on the fate of our missing servicemen. And it includes encouraging the Executive branch to establish a process of live-sighting response investigation and evaluation that is more extensive and professional than ever before. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1992Best.-Nr. 83074Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1992. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. iii 1 52 pages. Ink notations on back cover. Ink some marginal marks noted. Tear at top of front cover page at spine. Another small tear at top edge of cover page. Cover has some wear and soiling. Opening statements: Senator Lieberman Senator Cohen; Witnesses: Tuesday February 4 1992: Awad Adnan Terrorist Defector; Neil J. Gallagher Chief Counter-Terrorism Section Federal Bureau of Investigation; Victoria Toensing Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Howard Safir Former Associate Director for operations United States Marshals Service. Alphabetical List of Witnesses: Awad Adnan: Testimony; Gallagher Neil J; Test; Toensing Victoria: Testimony Prepared Statement. Also contains Appendix with prepared statements of witnesses in order of appearance; and The Counter-Terrorism Rewards Program. Victoria Ann Toensing née Long; born October 16 1941 is an American attorney. She joined the U.S. attorney's office in Detroit where she prosecuted narcotics cases. In 1981 Toensing became chief counsel to Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence where she helped draft the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982. Adnan Awad born 1942 in Palestine was a captain in the Palestinian Liberation Army who joined the 15 May Organization and prepared to bomb the Noga Hilton hotel in Geneva Switzerland on August 31 1982 but instead fled the scene and later turned himself into the American embassy and claimed he wanted to renounce any terrorist connections. With his aid American intelligence agencies determined that it was the 15 May Organization that had constructed the bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 830. In 1991 he co-operated with author Steven Emerson who wrote about Awad's life in the book "Terrorist". Howard Safir began his law enforcement career in 1965 as a special agent assigned to the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics a forerunner of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs BNDD and eventually the Drug Enforcement Administration DEA. Safir advanced through the ranks of the DEA and in 1977 was appointed Assistant Director of the DEA. He moved to the U.S. Marshals Service USMS in 1978 where he served as Chief of the Witness Security Division. In 1984 he was named Associate Director for Operations of the USMS a position he held until his retirement from the federal government in 1990. As head of the national security division Neil J. Gallagher was in charge of foreign counterintelligence investigations and domestic security programs. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1980Best.-Nr. 79765Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1980. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. iii 1 41 3 pages. Includes Opening Statement by Senator Gary Hart Presiding. Also includes Statement of the Hon. Harold Brown Secretary of Defense Accompanied by Lt. Gen. Eugene T. Tight Jr. JCS. Air Force Director Defense Intelligence Agency; Statement of Lt. Gen. Eugene T. Tight Jr. Director Defense Intelligence Agency; Questions Submitted by Senator John Tower Answers Supplied by Hon. Harold Brown Secretary of Defense; Questions Submitted by Senator Strom Thurmond Answers Supplied by Hon. Harold Brown Secretary of Defense; Questions Submitted by Senator Carl Levin Answers Supplied by Hon. Harold Brown Secretary of Defense. General Tighe stated at this hearing that the Soviet Union had the research and development facilities and the major capital investments in production of chemical weapons and the major capital investments in the storage of chemical weapons. Harold Brown September 19 1927 - January 4 2019 was an American nuclear physicist who served as United States Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981. Previously he held the posts of Director of Defense Research and Engineering 1961-1965 and Secretary of the Air Force 1965-1969. Brown graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at age 15 and earned a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University at age 21. As Secretary of Defense he set the groundwork for the Camp David Accords and took part in strategic arms negotiations with the Soviet Union. Lt. Gen. Eugene Tighe Jr. 1921 - 1994 was director of the United States Defense Intelligence Agency 1977 - 1981. Chemical warfare CW involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons. This type of warfare is distinct from nuclear warfare biological warfare and radiological warfare which together make up CBRN the military acronym for nuclear biological and chemical warfare or weapons all of which are considered "weapons of mass destruction" WMDs. None of these fall under the term conventional weapons which are primarily effective due to their destructive potential. In theory with proper protective equipment training and decontamination measures the primary effects of chemical weapons can be overcome. In practice they continue to cause much suffering as most victims are defenseless. Many nations possess vast stockpiles of weaponized agents in preparation for wartime use. The threat and the perceived threat have become strategic tools in planning both measures and counter-measures. The use of chemical weapons is prohibited under customary international humanitarian law. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
1971Best.-Nr. 80201Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1971. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. Part 2 ONLY. iv 521-1804 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Footnotes. References. Cover has some wear and soiling. A major focus of this hearing was on radiation exposure and hazards. Among the witnesses were: Roger Egeberg Joseph Hennessey Clarence Larson James Ramey representatives of the Federal Radiation Council and John Totter then Director of the Biomedical Division of the Atomic Energy Commission. Radiation protection also known as radiological protection is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA as "The protection of people from harmful effects of exposure to ionizing radiation and the means for achieving this". Exposure can be from a source of radiation external to the human body or due to internal irradiation caused by the ingestion of radioactive contamination. Ionizing radiation is widely used in industry and medicine and can present a significant health hazard by causing microscopic damage to living tissue. There are two main categories of ionizing radiation health effects. At high exposures it can cause "tissue" effects also called "deterministic" effects due the certainty of them happening conventionally indicated by the unit gray and resulting in acute radiation syndrome. For low level exposures there can be statistically elevated risks of radiation-induced cancer called "stochastic effects" due to the uncertainty of them happening conventionally indicated by the unit sievert. Fundamental to radiation protection is the avoidance or reduction of dose using the simple protective measures of time distance and shielding. The duration of exposure should be limited to that necessary the distance from the source of radiation should be maximized and the source shielded wherever possible. To measure personal dose uptake in occupational or emergency exposure for external radiation personal dosimeters are used and for internal dose to due to ingestion of radioactive contamination bioassay techniques are applied. For radiation protection and dosimetry assessment the International Commission on Radiation Protection ICRP and International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements ICRU publish recommendations and data which is used to calculate the biological effects on the human body of certain levels of radiation and thereby advise acceptable dose uptake limits. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1973Best.-Nr. 80200Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1973. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Fair. v 1 890 pages. Statements. Communications. Maps. Illustrations. References. Additional Information. Appendix Some damp stains noted. Project Rio Blanco was an underground nuclear test that took place on May 17 1973 in Rio Blanco County Colorado approximately 36 miles 58 km northwest of Rifle. Three 33-kiloton nuclear devices were detonated nearly simultaneously in a single emplacement well at depths of 5838 6230 and 6689 feet 1779 1899 and 2039 m below ground level. The tests were conducted in fine-grain low-permeability sandstone lenses at the base of the Fort Union Formation and the upper portion of the Mesaverde Formation. This was the third and final natural-gas-reservoir stimulation test in the Plowshare program which was designed to develop peaceful uses for nuclear energy. The two previous tests were Project Gasbuggy in New Mexico and Project Rulison in Colorado. The United States Atomic Energy Commission conducted the test in partnership with CER Geonuclear Corporation and Continental Oil Company. A placard erected in 1976 now marks the site where the test was conducted. The site is accessible via a dirt road Rio Blanco County Route 29. Peaceful nuclear explosions PNEs are nuclear explosions conducted for non-military purposes. Proposed uses include excavation for the building of canals and harbors electrical generation the use of nuclear explosions to drive spacecraft and as a form of wide-area fraking. PNEs were an area of some research from the late 1950s into the 1980s primarily in the United States and Soviet Union. In the U.S. a series of tests were carried out under Project Plowshare. Some of the ideas considered included blasting a new Panama Canal the use of underground explosions to create electricity and a variety of geological studies. The largest of the excavation tests was carried out in the Sedan nuclear test in 1962 which released large amounts of radioactive gas into the air. By the late 1960s public opposition to Plowshare was increasing and a 1970s study of the economics of the concepts suggested they had no practical use. Plowshare saw decreasing interest from the 1960s and was officially canceled in 1977. The Soviet program started a few years after the U.S. efforts and explored many of the same concepts under their Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy program. The program was more extensive eventually conducting 239 nuclear explosions. Some of these tests also released radioactivity including a significant release of plutonium into the groundwater and the polluting of an area near the Volga River. A major part of the program in the 1970s and 80s was the use of very small bombs to produce shock waves as a seismic measuring tool and as part of these experiments two bombs were successfully used to seal blown-out oil wells. The program officially ended in 1988. As part of ongoing arms control efforts both programs came to be controlled by a variety of agreements. Most notable among these is the 1976 Treaty on Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes PNE Treaty. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty of 1996 prohibits all nuclear explosions regardless of whether they are for peaceful purposes or not. Since that time the topic has been raised several times often as a method of asteroid impact avoidance. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1961Best.-Nr. 80525Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1961. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. xiv 699 3 pages. Wraps. Cover has some wear and soiling. 51 entries listed in the Table of Contents. Index. Laid in is a handwritten note by Senator Warren Magnuson then Chairman of the Committee on Commerce on a United States Senate Memorandum sheet that says "I thought you would be interested in this. Warren Magnuson USS". From the Preface "Parts I II and III of the Final Report constitute a unique record in American Political History. For the first time we have the complete press conferences speeches remarks and statement of the two major candidates for the Presidency throughout the presidential campaign period. Here then is the presidential campaign of 1960. I Chairman Magnuson am confident the Senate and the public will find these volumes of continuing interest and use as a general reference work." NOTE: This final version has additional material which was not available to the subcommittee at the time of the original subcommittee print of July 27 1961 as well as a comprehensive index. The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday November 8 1960. In a closely contested election Democrat United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon the Republican Party nominee. This was the first election in which fifty states participated and the last in which the District of Columbia did not. It was also the first election in which an incumbent president was ineligible to run for a third term because of the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment. It is also the last election where the losing candidate won Ohio. Nixon faced little opposition in the Republican race to succeed popular incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower. Kennedy a junior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts established himself as the Democratic front-runner with his strong performance in the 1960 Democratic primaries including a key victory in West Virginia over United States Senator Hubert Humphrey. He defeated Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson on the first presidential ballot of the 1960 Democratic National Convention and asked Johnson to serve as his running mate. The issue of the Cold War dominated the election as tensions were high between the United States and the Soviet Union. Kennedy won a 303 to 219 Electoral College victory and is generally considered to have won the national popular vote by 112827 a margin of 0.17 percent though some argue that Nixon should be credited with the popular vote victory as the issue of the popular vote was complicated by the presence of several unpledged electors in the Deep South. Fourteen unpledged electors from Mississippi and Alabama cast their vote for Senator Harry F. Byrd as did a faithless elector from Oklahoma. The 1960 presidential election was the closest election since 1916 and this closeness can be explained by a number of factors. Kennedy benefited from the economic recession of 1957-58 which hurt the standing of the incumbent Republican Party and he had the advantage of 17 million more registered Democrats than Republicans. Furthermore the new votes that Kennedy the first Roman Catholic president gained among Catholics almost neutralized the new votes Nixon gained among Protestants. Kennedy's campaigning skills decisively outmatched Nixon's who wasted time and resources campaigning in all fifty states while Kennedy focused on campaigning in populous swing states. Nixon's emphasis on his experience carried little weight for most voters. Kennedy used his large well-funded campaign organization to win the nomination secure endorsements and with the aid of the big-city bosses get out the vote in the big cities. Kennedy relied on Johnson to hold the South and used television effectively. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
2005Best.-Nr. 76549Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2005. presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. S. Hrg. 109-170. iv 357 3 pages. Illustrations. Michael Okerlund Leavitt born February 11 1951 is an American politician who served as the 14th Governor of Utah from 1993 to 2003 in the Republican Party as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2003 to 2005 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2005 to 2009. Leavitt serves as a co-leader of the Prevention Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center. All presidential appointments with Senate confirmation PAS must follow the appointment confirmation process before taking office. The number of PAS positions varies by presidency but typically includes all executive department secretaries undersecretaries inspectors general and numerous other positions depending on the department. Other positions requiring confirmation can include positions in independent agencies and commissions. In total there are between 1200 and 1400 PAS positions. The full list of positions for each presidency can be found in the corresponding United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions commonly referred to as the Plum Book. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
2005Best.-Nr. 76548Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2005. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. S. Hrg. 108-002. iv 553 3 pages. Cover has some corner creasing. Illustrations. The Committee on Armed Services is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of the nation's military including the Department of Defense military research and development nuclear energy as pertaining to national security benefits for members of the military the Selective Service System and other matters related to defense policy. The Armed Services Committee was created as a result of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 following U.S. victory in the Second World War. It merged the responsibilities of the Committee on Naval Affairs and the Committee on Military Affairs. Considered one of the most powerful Senate committees its broad mandate allowed it to report some of the most extensive and revolutionary legislation during the Cold War years including the National Security Act of 1947. This group of nominated individuals represents perhaps the finest group of civilian and military leaders in the national security community at the time! All presidential appointments with Senate confirmation PAS must follow the appointment confirmation process before taking office. The number of PAS positions varies by presidency but typically includes all executive department secretaries undersecretaries inspectors general and numerous other positions depending on the department. Other positions requiring confirmation can include positions in independent agencies and commissions. In total there are between 1200 and 1400 PAS positions. The full list of positions for each presidency can be found in the corresponding United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions commonly referred to as the Plum Book. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1996Best.-Nr. 76713Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1996. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. iv 443 1 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. COver has slight edgewear other wear and soiling. When this hearing was held the United States had exported nuclear materials equipment and technologies to the member states of the European Atomic Energy Community known as EURATOM for more than 35 years. This cooperation had been governed by an agreement for cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy which was first concluded in 1958 and had been amended several times. An agreement was reached to replace the agreement with a new one which was approved by the General Affairs Council of the European Union and by President Clinton. The Senate hearing was to consider the content and merits of the new agreement. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
2002Best.-Nr. 76905Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2002. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. iv 272 4 pages. S. Hrg. 107-622. The Chairman stated that these hearings were to begin its consideration of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty SORT which the President submitted to the Senate on June 20 2002for its advice and consent to ratification. It was hoped that the treaty signed in May by Presidents Bush and Putin was a very important step forward in U.S>-Russian relations and toward a mores secure world. Cutting the number of each country's deployed strategic nuclear warheads from approximately 6000 to between 1700 and 2200 could move the U.S. another step away from the cold war preparations for massive nuclear exchange. The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions SORT also known as the Treaty of Moscow was a strategic arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia that was in force from June 2003 until February 2011 when it was superseded by the New START treaty. At the time SORT was positioned as "representing an important element of the new strategic relationship" between the two countries with both parties agreeing to limit their nuclear arsenal to between 1700 and 2200 operationally deployed warheads each. It was signed in Moscow on 24 May 2002. After ratification by the U.S. Senate and the State Duma SORT came into force on 1 June 2003. It would have expired on 31 December 2012 if not superseded by New START. Either party could have withdrawn from the treaty upon giving three months written notice to the other. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1978Best.-Nr. 76489Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1978. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. iii 1267 1 pages. Illustrations. H. R. 12505 was a bill to provide for a research development and demonstration program to determine the feasibility of collecting in space solar energy to be transmitted to Earth and to generate electricity for domestic purposes. Statements were provided by Senator James Abourezk Senator Maryon Allen Oliver Boileau Boeing Garry DeLos John Deutch Department of Energy Congressman Ronnie Flippo Peter Glaser Arthur D. Little Senator Floyd Haskell Ira Hendrick Grumman Aerospace and Senator John Sparkman The Solar Power Satellite Research Development and Demonstration Program Act of 1978 would establish a program in the Department of Energy DOE to pursue research development and demonstration of solar power satellites SPS as a major source of energy. Enacting legislation for such a program at this time with the expectation of demonstrating such systems in the near future is premature. Technical environmental economic and institutional issues surrounding SPS systems have not been adequately investigated and supporting technologies such as the space shuttle and photovoltaic energy systems are years away from being useful in deploying SPS systems. Under existing legislation the DOE has initiated a SPS Concept Development and Evaluation Program to formulate a better understanding of the SPS concept. This program was begun in fiscal year 1977 and about $7.6 million has been obligated for carrying out the program through 1978. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1980Best.-Nr. 75308Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1980. Presume first edition/first printing thus. Wraps. Good. xi 1 420 pages. Important Dates. Tables. Fold-out. This document is a compilation of the constitutional provisions Federal and State laws and rules of the two major political parties governing the nomination and election of the President and Vice President of the United States. It lists the States holding presidential preference primaries and the dates of such primaries; it also describes the manner of selection delegates to the national conventions the dates such selections are to be made and the number of delegates to be selected. Two surveys of the roles of the major political parties and of the election laws of the fifth States and the District of Columbia are included related to the selection of delegates to the national nominating conventions and to the nomination and election of electors of the President and Vice President. Abstracts of the laws relating to minor and new parties independent candidates and corrupt practices are also included. The information contain is based on the laws in effect as of January 8 1980. The Foreword noted that there were a number of changes since the 1960 presidential election. This 1980 edition reflects the many changes in the election laws of the several states since the 1976 election. Various State laws referred to in this document may be amended subsequent to publication; similarly political party constitutions rules and delegate selection plans may also be amended. Every effort had been made to provide the latest statutes party rules and delegate selection plans. This is an essential reference work for understanding and analyzing the rules and practices in effect for the Presidential election of 1980. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
2002Best.-Nr. 73498Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2002. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. iv 140 pages. Illustrations. Senate Hearing 107-261. The hearing examined how the Immigration and Naturalization Service INS processes persons arrested for illegal entry into the United States outside ports of entry as well as the difference between procedures used at ports of entry and procedures used outside ports of entry for persons seeking or obtaining illegal entry into the United States. One issue of particular importance was the fact that many persons arrested for illegal entry outside ports of entry are released on bond or their own recognizance pending a deportation hearing. Another issue was the extent to which adequate background checks are conducted prior to any such release. The hearing asked the question whether current procedures makes sense in light of the September 11th terrorist attack and our ongoing effort to defeat terrorism. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
2009Best.-Nr. 73505Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2009. presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. iii 1 51 1 pages. Senate Hearing 111-83. The Chairman stated in part in his opening statement "Today the subcommittee meets to examine the crisis concerning Iraqi refugees and internally displaced persons known often maybe only here in Washington by the acronym IDPs one of the most tragic humanitarian consequences of America's war in Iraq. The purpose of this hearing is to determine the efforts being taken by the Iraqi Government the United States and the rest of the international community to facilitate the resettlement of Iraqis displaced internally and the repatriation of Iraqi refugees living in neighboring countries." U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1994Best.-Nr. 73603Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1994. Wraps. good. xvi 969 5 pages. Part VI only. Maps. Footnotes. Index. Some wear and soiling to covers and spine. "This is a study of U.S. government policymaking during the 30 years of the Vietnam war 1945-75 beginning with the 1945-1960 period. Although focusing on the course of events in Washington and between Washington and U.S. officials on the scene it also depicts major events and trends in Vietnam to which the U.S. was responding as well as the state of American public opinion and public activity directed at supporting or opposing the war."--Preface in first volume. This is part of a five volume work. This document was prepared for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. S. Prt. 103-83 Pt. 4. This fourth volume of a five-part policy history of the U.S. government and the Vietnam War covers the core period of U.S. involvement from July 1965 when the decision was made to send large-scale U.S. forces to the beginning of 1968 just before the Tet offensive and the decision to seek a negotiated settlement. Using a wide variety of archival sources and interviews the book examines in detail the decisions of the president relations between the president and Congress and the growth of public and congressional opposition to the war. Differences between U.S. military leaders on how the war should be fought are also included as well as military planning and operations. Among many other important subjects the financial effects of the war and of raising taxes are considered as well as the impact of a tax increase on congressional and public support for the war. Another major interest is the effort by Congress to influence the conduct of the war and to place various controls on U.S. goals and operations. The emphasis throughout this richly textured narrative is on providing a better understanding of the choices facing the United States and the way in which U.S. policymakers tried to find an effective politico-military strategy while also probing for a diplomatic settlement. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
2003Best.-Nr. 60158Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2003. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. iv 1500 p. Includes illustrations. Part II ONLY. S. Hrg. 107-524 Part II. This presents the additional material presented at the hearing--crucial data upon which then current and future judgments on air quality disease pathology population safety and related issues were assessed. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1980Best.-Nr. 62526Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1980. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. v 607 p. 24 cm. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Maps. Bibliography. Publication No. 96-143. In the view of the Committee Chairman "our national effort to reduce reliance on oil imports through expanded reliance on coal faced unfortunate impediments which needed to be corrected. One such impediment was certain State production taxes which had increased to unprecedented rates in the late 1970's. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2006Best.-Nr. 61679Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Hardcover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 103 p. S. Hrg. 109-470. The purpose of the hearing was for the Committee to recieve testimony on the current status of our ground forces in fighting the global war on terrorism. U. S. Government Printing Office hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. 63269Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2003. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iv 229 p. Includes illustrations. Occasional footnotes. S. Hrg. 107-550. This hearing took up the issue of protectiong our critical infrastructure from terrorist attack and the extent to which private industry should share sensitive information both within its own community and with the Federal Government. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
