Article 3 Where the goodsorservices to be procured by a centralgovernment agencyreachtheamountstandard for publicbidding, the procurementshall bemade in the methodof public bidding.
"The bill also calls for tangible progress in governance - including an independent judiciary, greater accountability by the central government, respect for human rights and civilian control of the levers of power, including the military and intelligence agency."
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Mr. Gates, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said government interrogators should be limited to the techniques contained in the Army Field Manual and barred from using harsher methods.
Schools lay in heaps of concrete and rebar, and the Central Propaganda Department, a governmentagency with the power to remove editors and shut down publications, banned coverage of rescue efforts at the schools.
Taiwan's government-owned Central News Agency has reported that Chen Guangcheng who now lives in New York with his wife and children plans to visit the island, likely for two weeks starting on June 23.