JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL FRIDAY - 7 JULY 1972

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2004
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• Publication Date: July 7, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 7 July 1972
1. IJim Woolsey, Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, called to say he and Larry Garcia, of the staff, will be
leaving Monday for a two-week tri to Saigon to investigate the Lavelle
case. Woolsey asked for some material which would assist them STATSPEC
in identifying bombing raids into North Vietnam but said there would be
no reason to be in touch with our people in connection with the substance
of the trip. I told him we would alert our Saigon station to their presence
there and to feel free to call on us if we could be of assistance in any STATSPEC
other way. A bundle ofI 'ooks and sections of their "Trends" on
this subject were hand-carried to Woolsey later in the day. An appropriate
cable is being sent to Saigon.
2.1 I Called Robert Hull, Department of
State, to get a status report on the Department's dealings with OMB on the
funding of the Foreign Service retirement system. OMB has backed off
somewhat and Hull foresees a favorable resolution in the near future. See
Memorandum for the Record.
3. I ICalled Robert Vagley, Director,
General Subcommittee on Labor, Committee on Education and Labor, concern-
ing the insertion by the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee of a
provision dealing with age discrimination in Federal employment in the Fair
Labor Standards Act amendments (S. 1861). Vagley was unaware of this
provision and after checking into it he agreed we probably could, at a minimum,
work out legislative history in the conference report, along the lines we had
worked out on the Equal Employment Opportunities Act, to show that there
is no intention to subordinate any discretionary authority or final judgment
reposed in Agency heads for national security reasons in the interest of the
United States. He also said the Senate Committee staff was adamant that
the provision not be struck in conference. Vagley agreed it would be difficult
to deal with the issue on the Senate floor and that the Civil Service Commission
was the logical rallying point against its objectionable features. (We had
previously learned the CSC had drafted the language of the provision for the
Senate Committee and probably informally supported the provision.)
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