National Security

  • Nov 14, 1988

    Army Recruiting Targets Latinos for Conflict in Central America

    The U.S. Defense Department is increasingly viewing young Latinos as an 'untapped' source of manpower as the number of white males has declined and military operations have increased in Central America. Reporter Juan Avila Hernandez explores the Army's campaign of heavy Spanish-language advertising, aggressive recruiting and studies heralding the importance of Hispanic soldiers.

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  • Nov 01, 1988

    The HIGH Cost of Speaking Out

    SLAPPS (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) are a new way to stifle dissent and suppress political debate. In cities across the country, individuals and advocacy groups are being sued for taking part in political activity -- addressing a governmental body or the electorate on an issue of public concern.

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  • Oct 16, 1988

    Secret Laws

    In this report on the National Security Decision Directives, the Oval Office's source of secret powers, Eve Pell and Angus MacKenzie report that the approximately 300 NSDDs issued by Ronald Reagan during his presidency still have the force of law, yet 80% of them remain secret from Congress and the American public.

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  • Oct 14, 1988

    Dukakis/Spy

    During the 1988 election campaign, Vice-Presidential candidate Dan Quayle attacked Governor Michael Dukakis' association with a national peace group, Jobs with Peace. The organization had been the subject of an FBI investigation early in the Reagan administration and, according to some observers, an object of harassment because it opposed White House defense policies.

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  • Oct 07, 1988

    Army Launches Ad Campaign Aimed at Latinos

    The U.S. Defense Department is increasingly viewing young Latinos as an 'untapped' source of manpower as numbers of white males have declined and military operations have increased in Central America. Reporter Juan Avila Hernandez explores the Army's campaign of heavy Spanish-language advertising, aggressive recruiting and studies heralding the importance of Hispanic soldiers.

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  • Aug 03, 1988

    Presidential 'Secret Laws' under probe

    Since 1981, the Reagan administration has issued some 298 'National Security Decision Directives (NSDDs). Of the 50 made public so far, most appear to concern government secrecy, strategic defense and propaganda. Reporter Angus MacKenzie explores why some call the directives 'secret laws' that undermine U.S. constitutional separation of powers.

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  • Aug 01, 1988

    Friend or FOIA?

    More than half of all Freedom of Information Act requests now come from the business community, where many find the Act a valuable tool for learning how federal agencies regulate corporations and for getting data about competitors.

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  • Jul 07, 1988

    Spies Like Us

    For the first time since the Watergate era, a series of troubling events is raising the specter of widespread and possibly illegal spying on U.S. citizens. Reporters Dan Noyes and Jonathan Dann explore how the new domestic spying has alarmed political activists and sparked congressional investigations.

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  • Jul 01, 1988

    Reagan Rex

    A U.S. district judge ruled that the President has sole authority over national security information, overturning a Congressional ban on nondisclosure agreements for government workers, to the exclusion of Congress and the courts.

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  • Jul 01, 1988

    There

    A U.S. district judge ruled the President has sole authority over national security information, overturning a Congressional ban on nondisclosure agreements for government workers to the exclusion of Congress and the courts.

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