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(Archived document, may contain errors) 1044 July 24, 1995 WHY CONGRESS SHOULD NOT UNDERMINE THE PRESIDENTIAL POWER OF APPOINTMENT INTRODUCTION Having trimmed the size of its own politically appointed staff earlier this year, Con gress is moving toward enacting legislation aimed at bringing about a sharp reduction in the number of political appointees in the Clinton Administration. In doing so, however Congress is not looking closely at the consequences of its action.

The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is at the heart of the debate on ballistic missile defense. Whether to proceed more quickly or more slowly to deploy missile defenses, and in what way, or whether to pro- ceed at all, is determined by how the ABM Treaty is viewed. The strategic assumptions underlying the treaty, forged during the Cold War, are very much alive in the Clinton Administration. They drive the Administration's approach not only to missile defense policy, but also to arms control and even U.S. policy toward Russia. In short, the Clinton Administration's policy toward the AB...

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(Archived document, may contain errors) 4/12/96 272 THE CHALLENGE OF TAIWAN'S DEMOCRACY FOR THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA