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• Strategic Assessment 1996: Instruments of U.S. Power

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  This strategic assessment discusses unconventional, classical, emerging military instruments as well as countering weapons of mass destruction. Other topics include arms control, defense engagement in peacetime, peace operations and humanitarian support, economics and diplomacy.

  National Defense University. Institute for National Strategic Studies

  1996
• Effectiveness of the National Drug Control Strategy and the Status of the Drug War, Hearings before the National, Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, March 9 and April 6, 1995

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  From the opening statement of William Zeliff: "This hearing is to review the President's national drug control strategy and assess where we are in the drug war. Before sharing some key facts with you, I want to welcome our very distinguished witnesses, especially our former First Lady, Nancy Reagan. What brings us together today, those of us who care deeply about this issue, is a concern that transcends party affiliation. What I'm talking about is an increasing sense of heartbreak and frustration. For more than a decade, drug use was falling. We were making progress. We had a policy that worked, and it was rooted in locally created and accountable prevention programs, strong Presidential leadership, and a commitment to intercepting or interdicting drug traffickers before they permeated our borders. In the late 1980's, interdiction efforts reduced the inflow of many drugs and kept their prices high. At the same time, accountable prevention efforts changed attitudes. Kids recognized the enormous risk associated with drug use, and our efforts bore fruit." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Lee Brown, Benjamin Gilman, Nancy Reagan, John P. Walters, Paul A. Yost Jr., William J. Bennett, Robert C. Bonner, William F. Clinger Jr., Cardiss Collins, James Copple, Benjamin Gilman, Bobby Heard, Thomas A. Hedrick Jr., Charles B. Rangel, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Louise Slaughter, and Karen L. Thurman.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1996
• Watermark: National Flood Insurance Program, Fall/Winter 1996

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  "The news publication for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) that features updates, technical assistance, and additional flood-related articles for insurance agents, public officials, lenders, and other NFIP stakeholders." This issue includes articles on the campaign to increase flood insurance purchasing, lender compliance, and recent program changes.

  United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

  1996
• Watermark: National Flood Insurance Program, Spring/Summer 1996

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  "The news publication for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) that features updates, technical assistance, and additional flood-related articles for insurance agents, public officials, lenders, and other NFIP stakeholders." This issue includes articles on lender compliance, program simplification, and the community rating system.

  United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

  1996
• TAB J SECTION 2: Summary of the National Contingency Plan for Response to Unusual Marine Mammal Mortality Events

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  "The Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Act required the preparation of a contingency plan for response to unusual marine mammal mortality events. The contingency plan includes all costal regions of the United States and the adjacent waters under United States jurisdiction. It addresses all species of marine mammals. With the exceptions noted below, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is primarily responsible for response to mortality events involving cetaceans and pinnipeds (excluding walrus), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is primarily responsible for sea otters, walrus, manatees, and polar bears. Depending on the circumstances, other units of government may have responsibilities. As an example, if a mortality event should create a serious public health problem, a variety of other local, state, and Federal agencies would have responsibilities. Because approaches for determining the cause of an event--collecting, preserving, and analyzing tissues--are likely to be similar among the range of species, the contingency plan provides a general outline, with species differences highlighted only when appropriate. The species-specific approach is most appropriate for rehabilitating live animals (Dierauf, 1990). For example, the physical facilities needed to care for pinnipeds are less complicated than those needed for cetaceans or polar bears."

  United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; United States. Department of Commerce

  WIlkinson, Dean M.

  1996
• TAB F SECTION 19: Summary of the National Contingency Plan for Response to Unusual Marine Mammal Mortality Events

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  "The Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Act required the preparation of a contingency plan for response to unusual marine mammal mortality events. The contingency plan includes all costal regions of the United States and the adjacent waters under United States jurisdiction. It addresses all species of marine mammals. With the exceptions noted below, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is primarily responsible for response to mortality events involving cetaceans and pinnipeds (excluding walrus), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is primarily responsible for sea otters, walrus, manatees, and polar bears. Depending on the circumstances, other units of government may have responsibilities. As an example, if a mortality event should create a serious public health problem, a variety of other local, state, and Federal agencies would have responsibilities. Because approaches for determining the cause of an event--collecting, preserving, and analyzing tissues--are likely to be similar among the range of species, the contingency plan provides a general outline, with species differences highlighted only when appropriate. The species-specific approach is most appropriate for rehabilitating live animals (Dierauf, 1990). For example, the physical facilities needed to care for pinnipeds are less complicated than those needed for cetaceans or polar bears."

  United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; United States. Department of Commerce

  WIlkinson, Dean M.

  1996
• National Transportation Safety Board 1995 Annual Report to Congress

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  "The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent agency charged with determining the 'probable cause' of transportation accidents and promoting transportation safety. The Board investigates accidents, conducts safety studies, evaluates the effectiveness of other government agencies' programs for preventing transportation accidents, and reviews appeals of enforcement actions involving airman and seaman certificates and civil penalties by the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard. To help prevent accidents, the NTSB develops safety recommendations, based on its investigations and studies, which are issued to federal, state and local government agencies, and to industry and other organizations in a position to improve transportation safety. These recommendations are the focal point of the Board's efforts to improve safety in the nation's transportation system."

  United States. National Transportation Safety Board

  1996?
• Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1996

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  Terrorism in 1996 continued to cause grave concern and disruption in scores of countries. Combating this menace remains a very high priority for the United States and many other nations. But finding clear "patterns" in this form of political violence is becoming more difficult. The Department of State's annual Patterns of Olobal Terrorism focuses primarily on international terrorism involving citizens or territory of two or more states. It also describes but does not provide statistics on domestic terrorism abroad, which is an even more widespread phenomenon. The number of international terrorist incidents has fallen, from a peak of 665 in 1987, to 296 in 1996, a 25-year low. Moreover, about two-thirds of these attacks were minor acts of politically motivated violence against commercial targets, which caused no deaths and few casualties. Yet while the incidence of international terrorism has dropped sharply in the last decade, the overall threat of terrorism remains very serious. The death toll from acts of international terrorism rose from 163 in 1995 to 311 in 1996, as the trend continued toward more ruthless attacks on mass civilian targets and the use of more powertul bombs. The threat of terrorist use of materials of mass destruction is an issue of growing concern, although few such attempts or attacks have actually occurred. Finally, domestic terrorism, in countries such as Algeria, India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan, appears to be growing and is more serious, in gross terms, than international terrorism. It is clear, in any case, that the damage to society from terrorism is very high, and not just in terms of the dead and wounded. Terrorism, by definition, is aimed at a wider audience than its immediate victims. Terrorists proved again in 1996 that they can command a worldwide audience for their crimes and cause great disruption, fear, and economic damage.

  United States. Department of State

  1996
• Case Study: Sverdlovsk Anthrax Outbreak of 1979

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  "In April and May of 1979 an Anthrax epidemic broke out in humans in the city of Sverdlovsk in the former Soviet Union. While Soviet officials attributed this outbreak to contaminated meat, the US Government maintains its position that the outbreak was due to a leakage from a biological weapons facility. This case seeks to explore the sources of the anthrax spores as well as the methods of treatment used by the Soviets according to both US and Soviet sources."

  US Army Medical Department Center and School

  Neifert, Alex

  1996
• Managing Information Security Problems

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  "This DISA Briefing discusses the topic of Managing Information Security Problems. The areas the briefing covers are: The operational environment; what are some of the problems encountered; what is happening in the community today and what are the community plans for the future. It addresses the issues of insider threat, external threat, how to cope with the threats, use of firewalls and the Defense in Depth strategy."

  United States. Defense Information Systems Agency

  Hoop, Clarence

  1996-01-01
• Serial No. 104-82: MMS's Royalty-In-Kind Pilot Program, Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, June 27, 1996

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  This is the June 27, 1996 hearing on the "MMS's Royalty-In-Kind Pilot Program," held before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Resources. From the opening statement of Ken Calvert: "Today's hearing will review the Mineral Management Service's natural gas royalty-in-kind pilot project conducted on Gulf of Mexico leases during 1995, what the agency and the gas producing and marketing industry have learned from the pilot, what insights we might gain from a royalty-in-kind program in the State of Texas, and what plans exist to expand a second pilot to onshore lease, as well as on the OCS [outer continental shelf]." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Andrew N. Hoyle, Stroud C. Kelley, Larry Nichols, G.S. Patterson, Cynthia Quarterman.

  United States. Government Publishing Office

  1996
• Persian Gulf War: New Findings on Traumatic Exposure and Stress

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  This article on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) highlights new research and findings on PTSD. From the article: "The conclusion of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 spawned a variety of research on the effects of wartime exposure and outcome. Although initial research emphasized issues like domestic adjustment and coping, vocational disruption, and the emergence of stress symptomatology, investigations targeting PTSD as an outcome in veterans were relatively limited. Presently, five years after the war's end, research has broadened in several ways, focusing on topics as diverse as longitudinal psychological adjustment and postwar physical health. We reviewed the extant mental health literature on the Persian Gulf War from 1991-1995 and found that studies fit roughly into five categories: phenomenology and prevalence of PTSD and stress reactions; treatment methods; effects on families; impact on indigenous populations; and physical health."

  National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (U.S.)

  Wolfe, Jessica, 1950-; Proctor, Susan P.

  1996
• 'Hot-System/Cool-System' View of Memory under Stress

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  This article on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) takes a "systems approach" to memory functions as related to PTSD. From the article: "In the systems approach to human memory, the mind/brain is assumed to be multifaceted, with semi-autonomous specialized subsystems operating in parallel. The component subsystems function to highlight their own parts of the representational tableau, which includes the phenomenological experience, the actions, the preferences, and the memories of the person. A number of component systems have been identified or hypothesized, each with its distinctive functions, representations (both in terms of modality and format), and operating principles. Within this systems view, the mind can be likened to a chamber orchestra: Each subsystem or instrument contributes its own special qualities to the melody and harmonies of mind, providing an unparalleled complexity and richness. The music may be altered when individual instruments are either muted or amplified. Similarly, depending on the response of the individual subsystems to factors such as stress (or other factors such as age, hormonal levels, and cognitive set), different aspects of human experience may be accentuated or silenced. While there are undoubtedly many subsystems that contribute to human experience, in this summary, we shall focus on two that are of fundamental importance for our understanding of human memory under acute stress." The authors use the terms "hot" and "cool" in relation to emotional-fear and cognitive systems, respectively, stating that "hot-system memories are stimulus driven" and "cool-system memories are narrative, recollective, and episodic."

  National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (U.S.)

  Metcalfe, Janet; Jacobs, W. J.

  1996
• Trauma, PTSD, and Physical Health

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  This article on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) examines the effects of PTSD on physical health, presenting research and statistics on the subject. From the article: "This issue of the PTSD Research Quarterly reviews the growing literature on the health outcomes associated with trauma and PTSD. It is based in part on a chapter I recently published with Matt Friedman (Friedman & Schnurr, 1995) in which we propose that PTSD is a primary mediator of the relationship between trauma and poor physical health. [...] The literature on trauma and health consistently shows that exposure to trauma is related to poor health outcomes. The much smaller literature on PTSD and health also shows consistent associations between PTSD and poor health. Given the prevalence of trauma in the general population-roughly 5% in men and 10% in women (Kessler et al., 1995)-the existing data can be used to argue that exposure to trauma is a significant public health problem that has real social and economic costs. Perhaps the most important direction for future research will be to assess morbidity and mortality along with self-reports of health status and service utilization. It will be through such efforts that the true costs of trauma can be estimated."

  National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (U.S.)

  Schnurr, Paula P.

  1996
• Trauma, PTSD, and Substance Abuse

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  This article on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) discusses the issue of substance abuse as related to PTSD, including statistical analyses and recommendations for future research. From the article: "For anyone working in the field of trauma and PTSD, the role of substance use and abuse may seem obvious. Yet despite the prevalence and clinical significance of substance use disorders in individuals with PTSD, relatively little is actually known about the comorbidity of these disorders. The majority of published papers on this topic are based on clinical experience and/or theory, with little empirical research to support them. Within the empirical literature, studies have varied widely in their approach to examining this problem. Moreover, many studies have examined substance use only as a secondary outcome within a larger analysis of trauma, PTSD, and related disorders. With these caveats in mind, this issue of the PTSD Research Quarterly provides an overview of the research literature on PTSD and substance abuse (PTSD/SA) comorbidity. In attempting to better understand this complex literature, the review is organized using the following heuristic framework: (a) substance abuse problems in individuals with PTSD, (b) trauma and PTSD symptoms in substance abuse patients, (c) 'self-medication' and prediction of substance use based on pre-, peri-, and post-trauma factors, (d) moderating variables, and (e) symptom overlap. Results of studies using both clinical and epidemiologic samples are reviewed and compared. Methodologic issues are addressed and directions for future research are discussed."

  National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (U.S.)

  Meisler, Andrew W.

  1996
• 1996 Addendum PNW Interagency Preparedness Plan

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  This addendum adds to the PNW (Pacific Northwest) Interagency Preparedness Plan, which "ensure timely recognition of approaching critical fire situations establish a process for analyzing situations and establishing priorities and for implementing actions to respond to these situations. The objective of this plan is to provide information adequate to make a decision that provides a high probability of attaining an appropriate level of preparedness. This plan covers READINESS for a potential wildfire incident(s), or an active incident(s), that endanger life, property or natural resources under jurisdiction of federal wildland fire protection agencies in the States of Oregon and Washington."

  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; United States. Forest Service; United States. Bureau of Land Management . . .

  1996
• Airborne Hunt for Faults in the Portland-Vancouver Area

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  "Geologic hazards in the Portland-Vancouver area include faults entirely hidden by river sediments, vegetation, and urban development. A recent aerial geophysical survey revealed patterns in the Earth's magnetic field that confirm the existence of a previously suspected fault running through Portland. It also indicated that this fault may pose a significant seismic threat. This discovery has enabled the residents of the populous area to better prepare for future earthquakes."

  Geological Survey (U.S.)

  1996
• Bottom Up Review, Carrier Force Levels and the Bureaucratic Process

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  "The bureaucratic politiccs approach provides a way of developing a fuller appreciation for the dynamics involved in the U.S. national security process and defense policymaking. To explore the earner 'industrial base' thesis and to gain a better understanding for this particular defense policy issue, the bureaucratic politics model developed by Graham T. Allison was used his basic unit of analysis is that policy is a political outcome -- the decisions and actions of governments are intra-national political outcomes. These outcomes are not the 'choice solutions' for problems Instead, they result from compromise, coalition, competition and confusion among government officials who see the different faces of an issue. This paper highlights key elements and players of the tamer force level decision process and uses them as examples to explain various aspects of Allison's model. Following thus analysis, concluding comments addressing the validity of the industrial base argument and general observations are provided."

  Naval War College (U.S.)

  Tennant, John W.

  1996
• Our Changing Planet: The FY 1997 U.S. Global Change Research Program

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  "The Earth's environment is constantly changing. Scientific evidence indicates that these changes are the result of a complex interplay among a number of natural and human-related systems. While the complexity of the Earth system and the interconnections among its components make understanding and prediction a very difficult challenge, the development of scientific knowledge and research capabilities are greatly advancing the understanding of global environmental change and the role of human activities in contributing to and responding to change. Humans have come to play a powerful and expanding role as agents of environmental change and human activities are also substantially impacted by global-scale environmental changes. The current and future state of the Earth system is inexorably linked to human activities. The United States, through the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), along with other nations, supports the research needed to characterize and understand global environmental change and to provide answers to important questions about the Earth system (including human activities), how it is changing, and the implications of global change for society and the natural ecosystems and managed resource systems on which society depends."

  National Science and Technology Council (U.S.); U.S. Global Change Research Program

  1996?
• Landslides and Landslide Hazards in Washington State Due to February 5-9, 1996 Storm

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  "During the week of February 4, 1996, cumulative rainfall levels of up to 23 in. fell in areas of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Combined records of rainfall and water equivalent of snowmelt were as high as 39 in. for this period in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest of southern Washington (National Resources Conservation Service, water and Climate Center, Portland, Oregon). Areas of highest rainfall intensities were centered on the Oregon-Washington border. Estimates of damage from the floods and landslides exceed $300 million (FEMA Interagency Hazard Mitigation Team, 1996) in Washington and Oregon alone. [...] The following text describes in greater detail the areas of high, moderate, and low landslide concentrations, noteworthy individual landslide sites, factors affecting landslide concentrations, and estimations of the landslide hazards that potentially still exist."

  Geological Survey (U.S.)

  Harp, Edwin L.; Cannon, Susan H.; Wilson, Raymond C. . . .

  1996?
• Defeating Insurgents with Technology

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  "As the United States military looks to the future, two themes dominate most projections. The first is advanced technology. Underwritten by the microchip, the technologies of war are changing rapidly. Weapons with microprecision accuracy, supercomputers linked by unlimited bandwidth, platforms providing continuous surveillance of practically any spot on the digitally mapped earth--all are coming into view. These emerging technologies are combining to produce orders-of-magnitude increases in military capabilities. Adm William Owens, vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, calls this 'The Emerging System of Systems,' spawning a new revolution in military affairs. Understanding the ramifications of this revolution is an immense challenge for US military planners. The second trend facing the US military involves insurgencies. For the past 50 years, insurgencies have been the most common type of war. Wars in Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia, Chechnya, Liberia, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Vietnam, and many similar conflicts pitted insurgent groups against established governments. This course will likely continue. Trends in demographics, economics, and technology all indicate continued worldwide instability as many nations grapple with exploding populations, stagnant economies, and centuries of ethnic hatred. Although conventional aggression (such as the Korean War and the Gulf War) will continue to threaten US interests, insurgencies will probably persist as the most likely form of conflict in which US military forces may be called upon to fight."

  Air University (U.S.). Press

  Barnett, Jeffery R., 1950-

  1996
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics: 1996

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  "This is the 24th annual Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics. It brings together in a single volume nationwide data of interest to the criminal justice community. Statistical information about crime and criminal justice in the United States is published by hundreds of public and private agencies, academic institutions, research organizations, public opinion polling firms, and other groups. All levels of government collect and disseminate such data."

  United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics

  Anderson, Sean E.; Maguire, Kathleen; Pastore, Ann L.

  1996
• Recommendations of the Crime, Violence, and Discipline Reporting Task Force

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  "The Crime, Violence, and Discipline Reporting Task Force of the National Education Statistics Agenda Committee (NESAC), National Forum on Education Statistics recognizes the large variation of expertise and capabilities across the United States in the area of information systems. This is particularly true in what individual states and school districts are willing or want to collect in the way of descriptive statistics in the areas of school crime, violence, and discipline. Further, the Task Force understands that individual state and district laws may impact the overall types of information that can be collected in this area. With these understandings in mind, the Task Force is making the following recommendations as a means of establishing a reporting system based on a unit record system. That is, the data system recommended here is a module of an overall individual student reporting system. However, with minor modifications of the data collected, it is possible for the system module to be expanded to include additional demographic information on the students or the victims of the crime, violence, or disciplinary action being collected."

  National Center for Education Statistics; National Forum on Education Statistics (U.S.); National Cooperative Education Statistics System (U.S.)

  1996?
• Military Doctrine and Counterinsurgency: A British Perspective

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  "The experience of numerous 'small wars' has provided the British army with a unique insight into this demanding form of conflict. Service in Northern Ireland has given the present generation of soldiers their main firsthand source of basic experience at the tactical level, but this also tends to constrain military thinking on the subject because of the national context and political connotations. There are of course many lessons to be learned because of the similarities between the campaign in Northern Ireland, which is designated as Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) and those counterinsurgency campaigns which may be conducted elsewhere. But there are also significant differences. Tactics such as jungle patrolling and convoy anti-ambush drills--which from the perspective of Northern Ireland seem to be relics of a colonial past--may be very relevant in a different operational setting. Despite their long experience in counterinsurgency, the British have not developed any set methods of dealing with the problem of insurgency; indeed it is probably unwise to attempt this because every situation is different. There are, however, many other approaches to this form of combat. [...]. For example, in any future counterinsurgency operation, military action will be conducted under the critical scrutiny of the law, the media, human rights organizations, and other international bodies such as the European Court. Thus while military planning should draw upon the lessons of the past, doctrine for counterinsurgency must evolve if it is to remain relevant."

  Army War College (U.S.)

  Bulloch, Gavin

  1996
• Annual Report to Congress on Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage: 1996

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  "This report updates the US Government's last report on ''foreign industrial espionage'' as specifically requested by Congress. It examines the full range of potentially damaging collection efforts against US national and corporate interests by foreign intelligence services, other government agencies, and private firms in two broad areas of concern-economic intelligence collection and illicit acquisition of technological and other proprietary information. To better identify and quantify the foreign-sponsored threats to private industry, this report also briefly refers to findings contained in a 1996 special report titled 'Intellectual Property Theft and Corporate Espionage' based on a survey by the ASIS. Although not sponsored by the US Intelligence Community, this private-sector report provides valuable insight on the trends and risks associated with intellectual property protection and loss, as viewed by 325 individual US corporations."

  National Counterintelligence Center (U.S.)

  1996
• Disclosure of Lobbying Activities

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  This document contains a form to be used when disclosing lobbying activities.

  United States. Office of Management and Budget

  1996-01
• National Cryptologic Strategy for the 21st Century

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  "These pages outline the National Security Agency/Central Security Service's strategic plan for the 21st century, and how we intend to achieve our goal: information superiority for America." Five sub goals relating to the following fields are also outlined: vital information, military operations, policy makers, technology, and people and processes.

  United States. National Security Agency

  1996
• Khomeini's Incorporation of the Iranian Military

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  "In her book, 'States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China' (1979), revolutionary authority and sociologist Theda Skocpol states: The repressive state organizations of the prerevolutionary regime have to be weakened before mass revolutionary action can succeed, or even emerge. Indeed, historically, mass rebellious action has not been able, in itself, to overcome state repression. Instead, military pressures from abroad . . . have been necessary to undermine repression. In a later article, she further clarifies this by stating that the 'centralized, semibureaucratic administrative and military organizations of the old regimes disintegrated due to combinations of international pressures and disputes between the monarchs and landed commercial upper classes.' In other words, according to Skocpol, for a revolution to occur (and subsequently succeed), the armed forces would have to be emasculated and therefore rendered ineffective (due to internal and/or external influences). But in the context of the Iranian Revolution, Skocpol's theory did not apply. Thus the following question arises: Given that the Pahlavi regime had the most powerful, well-equipped, and well-trained military machine in the Persian Gulf, how then did Khomeini and his followers neutralize (politically, socially, and militarily) the armed forces of the Pahlavi Regime?"

  National Defense University. Institute for National Strategic Studies

  Roberts, Mark J.

  1996-01
• Wildlife Conservation in Wyoming, Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans of the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, April 10, 1996

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  This is the April 10, 1996 hearing on "Wildlife Conservation in Wyoming," held before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans of the Committee on Resources. From the opening statement of Barbara Cubin: "The purpose of the hearing is to discuss the predation of wildlife and livestock specifically by coyotes, golden eagles and wolves and to examine the effectiveness of non-lethal means of predator control. In lieu of simply reacting to predation problems, I think it is important that we focus on methods of prevention which can serve wildlife while protecting the rights of private property owners." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Bobby Acord, Larry Bourret, Dru Bower, Robert F. Christensen, Dan Chu, Cindy Garretson-Weibel, Ken Harriet, Steven W. Horn, Truman Julian, Ron Micheli, Brad Palm, V.B. Parham, Tom Segerstrom, Terry Schramm, Gary Shorma, Leila Stanfield, Paul T. Walton, Robert Wenande, and Scott Zimmerman.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1996
• Activities of Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Toward the Branch Davidians (Part 3), Joint Hearings before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives and the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, July 28, 31, and August 1,1995

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  This is the July 28, 31, and August 1, 1995 hearing on "Activities of Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Toward the Branch Davidians" held before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives and the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. This hearing centers on how the federal law enforcement representatives acted at the Waco Siege against the Branch Davidians. Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Floyd Clarke, R.J. Craig, Edward S.G. Dennis, Jr., Clive Doyle, Paul C. Gray, H. Allen Holmes, Webster Hubbell, Jeffery Jamar, James McGee, John Morrison, Larry A. Potts, James G. Quintiere, Janet Reno, Mark Richard, Dick Rogers, Byron Sage, Harry Salem, William Sessions, and Richard L. Sherrow.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1996