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198160176Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1981. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling. viii 725 p. Includes: illustrations bibliography. Footnotes. Serial No. J-97-13. In 1976 the Supreme Court reviewed again a series of cases involving capital punishment statutes for murder in Georgia Texas Florida Louisiana and North Carolina. In essence the Supreme Court upheld statutory schemes provding standards to govern the exercise of discretion by the jury or judge and rejected those requiring mandatory imposition of the death penalty under specified circumstances. S. 111 was primarily modeled after the Georgia statute that was upheld by the Supreme Court. The bill would provided for a bifurcated trial for treasons espionage and murder. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
196163449Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1961. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Somewhat worn and soiled. Edge tear at front. Stain at last page. Small hole at bottom of last page. ii 121 p. Includes illustrations. Folding charts. This is an extremely scarce Richard Helms/Central Intelligence Agency item. This was sworn testimony before the Congressional subcommittee. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
197180201Washington 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
197891224Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1978. Presumed First Edition First Printing. Wraps. Very good. iii 1 267 1 pages. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Minor wear and soiling to the front page. This volume includes statements from James Abouresk Maryon Allen Oliver Boileau Garry DeLoss John Deutch Ronnie Flippo Peter Glaser Floyd Haskell Ira Hedrick and John Sparkman. Senator Abouresk opened the hearing by stating "I have long been a supporter of solar energy and have sponsored a great deal of legislation to encourage its use. Nonetheless the harnessing of Sun for the solar power satellite seems to me to be singularly ill-advised an wasteful approach. The Government Accountability Office in its report EMD-78-61 Publicly Released: Apr 13 1978 stated that 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. Program activities are expected to result in the formulation of program recommendations by June 1980 either to continue further study field testing and possibly space testing or to terminate the program. The scope of DOE's ongoing program appears sufficient to gain a better understanding of the issues surrounding SPS systems. After these studies are completed a better basis will exist for evaluating the pros and cons of a costly SPS development program. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
198151772Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 1981. good. 735 wraps figures tables appendices slight darkening to text Complete title: Credit Deregulation and Availability Act of 1981. Hearings on S. 963 to authorize loans at interest rates in excess of certain state usury ceilings and S. 1406 to amend the Depository Institutions Dergulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980. GPO paperback
197951583Washington DC: GPO 1979. very good. 471 wraps figures appendix Serial No. 96-20. These hearings considered the question of whether the insurance business is by nature so unique that it should retain its longstanding exemption from the Federal antitrust laws and remain subject only to State regulation. GPO paperback
198152261Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 1981. very good. 160 wraps table. Complete subtitle: Hearing to explore the intricacies of the Iranian asset agreement and the role of U.S. banks in the fashioning of that agreement. Banks were the principal weapons used against Iran to exert pressure for relief in the hostage crisis. GPO paperback
198152228Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 1981. good. 462 wraps Part 2 only of a 2-part set figures slight discoloration to covers & spine slight waviness to text Joint hearing with the Subcommittee on International Finance and Monetary Policy of the Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs. GPO paperback
198328849Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 1983-1984. good. 24 cm 364 total wraps 2-volume set tables. S. Hrg. 98-259 and S. Hrg. 98-565 Pt. 2. Complete subtitle of Part 1: Hearings on S. 428 to provide for a study on economically strategic technologies and to identify and provide for the development of such technologies; S. 632 entitled the "Frontier Technologies Assessment Act"; S. 1286 to establish a program to conduct research and development for improved manufacturing technologies and for other purposes; June 21 and 23 1983 Serial No. 98-29. Complete subtitle of Part 2: Hearings on S. 1286 to establish a program to conduct research and development for improved manufacturing technologies and for other purposes November 23 December 6 and 7 1983 Serial No. 98-29 Part 2. GPO paperback
19610784091Washington D. C.: United States Government Printing Office / Committee on Commerce United States Senate. 1961. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". F First Edition Collectible. Paperback. Good. SIGNED BY JFK's Brother Teddy Kennedy. Signed and inscribed inside front cover "To Phil Browden My best wishes Edward M. Kennedy". Also laid in loose is a printed presentation slip from US Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington State. Original green printed wraps general wear to spine covers and text edges. Signed: I Association Copy United States Government Printing Office / Committee on Commerce, United States Senate paperback
1917106132New York: Bureau of National Literature. Good in No Cover jacket Hard Cover . Hard Cover. 1917. Bureau of National Literature hardcover
199065749Washington DC: U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs. Congressional Sales Office 1990. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. vi 746 p. 24 cm. Illustrations Maps. S. Hrg. 101-744. This is the record of a series of hearings about stopping the global spread of chemical and biological weapons. U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office paperback
197667809Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1976. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. Ink notations inside front cover. Ink underlining and marks in first part of Hearing record. Slightly cocked. Cover soiled and scuffed. VOLUME 6 ONLY. ix 1 1000 6 pages. 24 cm. Title continues: "Investivations November 18 19 December 2 3 9 10 and 11 1975." From a United States Senate website: "In 1973 CIA Director James Schlesinger told Senate Armed Services Chairman John Stennis that he wished to brief him on a major upcoming operation. No no my boy responded Senator Stennis. Don t tell me. Just go ahead and do it but I don t want to know. Similarly when Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J.W. Fulbright was told of the CIA subversion of the Allende government in Chile he responded I don t approve of intervention in other people s elections but it has been a long-continued practice. Late in 1974 investigative reporter Seymour Hersh revealed that the CIA was not only destabilizing foreign governments but was also conducting illegal intelligence operations against thousands of American citizens. On January 27 1975 an aroused Senate voted overwhelmingly to establish a special 11-member investigating body along the lines of the recently concluded Watergate Committee. Under the chairmanship of Idaho Senator Frank Church with Texas Senator John Tower as vice-chairman the select committee was given nine months and 150 staffers to complete its work. The so-called Church Committee ran into immediate resistance from the Ford administration concerned about exposing American intelligence operations and suspicious of Church s budding presidential ambitions. The committee interviewed 800 individuals and conducted 250 executive and 21 public hearings. At the first televised hearing staged in the Senate Caucus Room Chairman Church dramatically displayed a CIA poison dart gun to highlight the committee s discovery that the CIA directly violated a presidential order by maintaining stocks of shellfish toxin sufficient to kill thousands. Lacking focus and necessarily conducting much of its work behind closed doors the panel soon lost any hope of becoming a second Watergate Committee. Critics from Bing Crosby to Paul Harvey accused it of treasonous activity. The December 1975 assassination of a CIA station chief in Greece intensified the public backlash against its mission. The panel issued its two-foot-thick final report in May 1976 without the support of influential Republican members John Tower and Barry Goldwater. Despite its shortcomings the inquiry demonstrated the need for perpetual surveillance of the intelligence community and resulted in the creation of the permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Historian Henry Steele Commager assessed the Committee s legacy. Referring to executive branch officials who seemed to consider themselves above the law he said It is this indifference to constitutional restraints that is perhaps the most threatening of all the evidence that emerges from the findings of the Church Committee. " From Wikipedia: "The Church Committee was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Senator Frank Church D-ID in 1975. A precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence the committee investigated intelligence gathering for illegality by the Central Intelligence Agency CIA National Security Agency NSA and Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI after certain activities had been revealed by the Watergate affair. By the early years of the 1970s the unpopularity of the Vietnam War and the unfolding Watergate scandal brought the era of minimal oversight to an abrupt halt. The United States Congress was determined to rein in the Nixon administration and to ascertain the extent to which the nation's intelligence agencies had been involved in questionable if not outright illegal activities. A series of troubling revelations started to appear in the press concerning intelligence activities. First came the revelations of Christopher Pyle in January 1970 of the U.S. Army's spying on the civilian population and Sam Ervin's Senate. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
197368111Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off 1973. Wraps. Fair. Ex-library. Some of the usual library markings. Front cover scuffed. Pencil erasure residue on front cover. Title page partially separated. Crease and tear at page 357/8. iii 714 p.; 24 cm. Title continues: "on nomination of Louis Patrick Gray III of Connecticut to be Director Federal Bureau of Investigation February 28 March 1 6 7 8 9 12 20 21 and 22 1973. From Wikipedia: "Louis Patrick Gray III or Pat Gray July 18 1916 July 6 2005 was acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI from May 2 1972 to April 27 1973. During this time the FBI was in charge of the initial investigation into the burglaries that sparked the Watergate scandal which eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon. Gray was nominated as permanent Director by Nixon on February 15 1973 but failed to win Senate confirmation. He resigned as acting FBI director on April 27 1973 after he admitted to destroying documents received on June 28 1972 11 days after the Watergate burglary that had come from convicted Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt's safe given to him by White House counsel John Dean. By the time Gray had successfully defended himself against five federal grand juries and four committees of Congress he had been vilified by the press and denounced by the prosecutors who could not prove his guilt. Gray remained publicly silent about the Watergate scandal for 32 years speaking to the press only once near the end of his life; this was shortly after Gray's direct subordinate at the FBI Mark Felt unexpectedly proclaimed himself to have been the secret source to The Washington Post known as Deep Throat." U.S. Govt. Print. Off paperback
193966458Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office 1939. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear creasing and soiling. Pencil erasure residue on t-p. iv 636 p. Includes illustrations. Fold-outs Title continues First Session: The Following Bills and Resoultions are Pending before the Committee for Considerations S. J. Res. 21 S. J. Res. 67 S. J. Res. 97 S. J. Res. 106 S. Con. Res. 8 S. 203 S. 1745. Consolidated Print. United States Government Printing Office paperback
198052191Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 1980. very good. 452 wraps tables charts appendix. Hearings on S. 2352 to increase the authorization for the Council on Wage and Price Stability to extend the duration of such Council and for other purposes March 10 14 17 and April 21 1980. GPO paperback
198051170Washington DC: GPO 1980. good. 507 & 19 2-vol. set wraps illus. maps tables index large rough spot on front cover v.1 slight waviness to text v.1. The first volume contains the hearings; the second volume is a separate index volume. GPO paperback
197851593Washington DC: GPO 1978. good. 604 wraps appendix figures tables footnotes lower corner of rear cover and a few pages bent. Hearings on acquisitions and mergers by conglomerates of unrelated businesses. GPO paperback
198153676Washington DC: GPO 1981. First Edition. First Printing. good. 381 & 137 wraps 2-vol. set pencil erasure on front of each part somewhat worn and soiled. Hearings on the nomination of Alexander M. Haig Jr. to be Secretary of State. GPO paperback
1949011484Boston: Massachusetts General Court; Museum of Fine Arts 1949. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine. These selections were published by the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives in 1949 "to signalize and solemnize the return to Massachusetts of the Historic Paul Revere Liberty Bowl" which had been in private hands for one hundred and fifty years. Near fine condition with no significant flaws. Very scarce with to my knowledge no copies for sale on-line. box 104 <br/> <br/> Massachusetts General Court; Museum of Fine Arts hardcover
194662739Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office 1946. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Fair. PART 10 ONLY. vi 1151-1530 pages. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Occasional footnotes. Small excess of paper at bottom of pages 1397/1398 trimmed away. Small corner piece of pages 1399/1400 missin--no loss of text. No dust jacket as issued. Marginal ink marks and some underlining noted. Front cover worn and soiled with tears at bottom staple area. Among the information contained is History of the Farben merger 1926; Statement by dr. von Schnitzer on Farben's wartime expansion; Overseas exports of Farben during wartime; History of the Military Liaison Office; Industrial Mobilization and report on conferences at German Military command in Paris. There is also information on damage to Farben plants. This was one of several fact-finding hearings on the economic base for German aggression. This material is related to a report on the investigation of I.G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft Frankfurt am Main German. This investigation was one of a series initiated by Financial Branch G-5 USFET and the Finance Division United States Group Control Council with respect to the international asset position of Germany. A basic purpose of this investigation was to uncover the nature and location of the far-flung and carefully concealed external assets of I. G. Farben. The exhibits includes tables statistics analysis of profits research expenditures etc. United States Government Printing Office paperback
198765779Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1987. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. vii 1 919 p. This information was made public in December 1986. This volume covered the "World Situation" Cuba Nuclear Arms the 'shrimp boat' incident Haiti; VIetnam; Arms Control; Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ' and the Dominican Republic. There is a brief discussion of the possibility of an Israeli nuclear weapon activities on pages 341. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
198050503Washington DC: GPO 1980. First Edition. First Printing. good. 24 cm 1096 wraps tables charts some waviness to entire document Subtitled: Oversight on the condition of the financial system commercial banks savings & loan associations and credit unions. This is a record of an annual hearing on the condition of the financial system. Data presented to the committee indicated that the capital ratios had not improved since Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns last testified. The Chairman noted that when capital is too low at the largest banks it is a matter of public concern. A specific concern of the Committee Chairman Senator William Proxmire was whether the U.S. economy was heading into a recession. An immense amount of material is presented in this hearing record. GPO paperback
198853780Washington DC: GPO 1988. very good. 1682 wraps appendices some creasing to spine. Joint Hearings with the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. One Hundredth Congress First Session 100-9. GPO paperback
198052210Place_Pub: Washington DC: GPO 1980. good. 850 wraps footnotes figures tables appendices some waviness to text small stains on front cover Complete subtitle: Hearings on S. 2704 to amend the Federal Reserve Act to authorize the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to establish margin requirements for transactions in financial instruments. GPO paperback