University Daily Kansan, September 21. 1983
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Colby makes charges Budget cuts may control CIA
WASHINGTON — Former CIA director William Colby suggested yesterday that Congress threatened the intelligence agency with budget cuts to stop secret military actions it disapproved of, rather than demanding their approval in advance.
Requiring advance congressional authorization of covert CIA operations "will ensure that no clandestine activity of that sort will ever take place," Colby said in testimony before the House Intelligence Committee.
Colby, who is now with a Washington law firm, criticized as unwise a bill introduced by Rep. Wyehc Fowler Jr., D-Ga, which called for advance approval of covert operations, but said the bill was "probably constitutional."
REP. WILLIAM Whitehurst, R-Va, a ranking member of the panel, and retired Army Maj, Gen. Richard Larkin, a former deputy director of the CIA, both contended Fowler's legislation would be an unconstitutional restriction on the powers of the president.
Larkin, who heads the 3,500-member Association of Former Intelligence Officers, said Fowler's proposals "do not serve the ultimate purpose of strengthening the American hand against the tough — yes, and ruthless — opposition we face in our intelligence operations abroad."
Colby and Larkin testified at the opening of three days of oversight hearings called in response to congressional demands that Nicaraguan insurgents in support of Nicaraguan insurgents,
Administration officials are not scheduled to testify, and Fowler expressed "deep regret" that they had "chosen not to participate."
THE GEORGIAN DEMOCRAT is the author of three bills calling for tougher congressional controls on the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
He said one bill would require "explicit authorization" for clandestine paramilitary or military actions unless the president finds "extraordinary circumstances" affecting vital U.S. interests.
Fowler said he first introduced a bill to give the House and Senate intelligence committees 15 days within which to veto covert actions proposed by the president, but came up with the bill requiring advance approval by Congress as a result of the Supreme Court ban last June on congressional vetoes.
Opening the hearing, committee chairman Edward Boland, D-Mass., said Congress can do little to prevent the president from authorizing covert activities except by "publicly exposing" them. While Congress can cut off funding, he said, this would have no effect until the following fiscal year.
BUT COLBY, WARNING against "unnecessary restrictions," suggested Congress rein in the CIA by telling its director "we're going to take it out of our way" by cutting his budget 10 times the cost of any objectionable operation.
"That will get his attention," Colby promised.
The suggestion was sharply criticized by Fowler, who accused Colby of being "facetious" in suggesting such "blackmailing" of the CIA.
"It's not that far out an idea," Colby insisted.
Witnesses form testify today include another former CIA director, retired Adm. Stansfield Turner.
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The national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said 60,000 to 70,000 people died of flu or pneumonia during the 1980-81 winter season.
DALLAS — The city that rulied that six giant frogs dancing atop a local nightclub were out of step with sign ordinances should be prepared to defend its decision in court, a club attorney said yesterday.
The Dallas Sign Control Board ruled that the mechanical frogs on the night of the tachibun Tango were not permitted to be – but a sign, and therefore illegal.
He estimated that the frogs would keep dancing for at least a year.
The nightclub's attorney, Robert W. Fischer, said that he planned to take the dispute into both state district court and federal court, and as long as the battle continued the frogs would keep dancing.
Wade. Wade testified before the sign board Monday that the frogs were works of art and should be allowed to stay.
THE FROGS, which play musical instruments and dance on the rooftop, were created by artist Bob
Besides the elderly, they at risk for pneumonia include people with chronic heart, lung and kidney diseases, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, those who have had surgery removed, those convalescing from severe diseases and those age 50 or older.
The issue sparked more than an hour of heated debate before the board voted 3-2 that the frogs should take a final bow.
Susan Grate, curator of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, disagreed. She insisted the frogs were art sculptors and been commissioned to sculpt them.
Board Chairman Arnold Sweet argued two of the frogs were doing the tango and were, therefore, an advertisement for the club.
Fu-related deaths occur primarily among chronically ill adults, people over 60 years of age.
"Two of those frogs are dancing," Sweet said. "What dance are they doing?"
"I don't know," said Wade.
"I can't even do the tango myself," said Wade.
Even though people over 50 are prime targets for the two diseases, a coalition of health care advocates said that only 15 percent to 20 percent have been immunized against flu and less than 10 percent against pneumonia.
WASHINGTON — Flu and pneumonia claim thousands of lives a year despite advances in treatment, and anyone at risk for the diseases should get a vaccination, health care experts said yesterday.
"It is essential that we alert Americans to the vital need for ... preventive medicine and that we begin right now by informing the public about the continual year-to-year threat of influenza and pneumonia," said Richard J. Duma president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
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Flu shots recommended
THE COALITION SAID pneumonia is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States, killing about 54,000 people annually despite advances in
DUMA SAID VACCINES are available to help prevent flu, and the Food and Drug Administration earlier this year licensed a vaccine to provide 23 strains of bacteria found in about 90 percent of pneumonia cases.
The two vaccines can be admins tered simultaneously, he said.
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