United States Congress General Accounting Office (9 results)

Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. GAO/RCED-91-59. Good. Mailing label on back. Staple holes in rear cover. Scotch tape remnant at edge.

Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. 22 p. Footnotes. In February 1991 GAO sponsored a conference, "U.S. Communications Policy: Issues for the 1990s, " in response to increasing congressional interest in this area. The conference brought together government officials, academicians, and industry executives, to explore and debate four critical policy issues in a series of round table discussions: how communications infrastructure should develop; the role of communications policy in promoting economic growth; allocations of the electromagnetic spectrum to support the growth of communications services; and whether the U.S. communications regulatory structure was effective. In preparing this publication, the GAO relied primarily on information developed during the four panel discussions. Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling.

Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. GAO/RCED-90-64. COngress was concerned about the funding of long-term liabilities--costs, damages, or other expenses--that may have been associated with permitted hazardous waste facilities once they had closed. Very good. Ink notation on front cover.

Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. GAO Report EMD-80-67. This report was requested by Chairman John D. Dingell. It discusses whether existing nuclear powerplant sites could be used as locations for new power plants and used to dispose of wastes from nuclear powerplant operations. Good. Cover has some wear and soilng.

Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. iv, 47 p. 27 cm. Includes Illustrations. With the collaspe of the South Vietnamese and Cambodian governments in April 1975, over 140, 000refugees were evacuated and entered the U. S> resettlement sysem under the Indochinese refugee program. The resettlement process was a massive endeavor. This reports concerns GAO observations on the resettlement phase of the program, including placement of refugees with sponsors and their initial steps toward being integrated into American society. Fair. Some damp staining--all pages separate and text clear. Ink initials on front cover. Mailing label addressed to Senator Floyd K. Haskell on back.

Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. 48 p. Tables. Figures. Case Studies. From Wikipedia: "Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat (also called hazard). Quantitative risk assessment requires calculations of two components of risk (R): , the magnitude of the potential loss (L), and the probability (p) that the loss will occur. Acceptable risk is a risk that is understood and tolerated usually because the cost or difficulty of implementing an effective countermeasure for the associated vulnerability exceeds the expectation of loss. In all types of engineering of complex systems sophisticated risk assessments are often made within Safety engineering and Reliability engineering when it concerns threats to life, environment or machine functioning. The nuclear, aerospace, oil, rail and military industries have a long history of dealing with risk assessment. Also, medical, hospital, social service and food industries control risks and perform risk assessments on a continual basis. Methods for assessment of risk may differ between industries and whether it pertains to general financial decisions or environmental, ecological, or public health risk assessment." Very good. No dust jacket. Cover (brown) has slight wear and soiling.

Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. 140 p. 28 cm. Illustrations. Tables. Glossary. Report designated: GAO/NSIAD-97-163. The GAO evaluated the Department of Defense; s and the Department of Veterans Affairs efforts to assess the quality of treatment and diagnostic services provided to Gulf War veterans and their provisions for follow-up of initial examimations and the government's research strategy to study the veterans' illnesses and the methodological problems posed in its studies, and the consistency of key official conclusions with available data on the causes of veterans' illnesses. From Wikipedia: "Gulf War syndrome (GWS), also known as Gulf War illness (GWI), is a chronic multisymptom disorder affecting returning military veterans and civilian workers of the Persian Gulf War. A wide range of acute and chronic symptoms have been linked to it, including fatigue, muscle pain, cognitive problems, rashes and diarrhea. Approximately 250, 000 of the 697, 000 veterans who served in the 1991 Gulf War are afflicted with enduring chronic multi-symptom illness, a condition with serious consequences. From 1995 to 2005, the health of combat veterans worsened in comparison with nondeployed veterans, with the onset of more new chronic diseases, functional impairment, repeated clinic visits and hospitalizations, chronic fatigue syndrome-like illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, and greater persistence of adverse health incidents. According to a report by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, it showed that veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan may also suffer from the syndrome. Suggested causes have included depleted uranium, sarin gas, smoke from burning oil wells, vaccinations, combat stress and psychological factors, though only pyridostigmine (an antitoxin for nerve agents) and organophosphate pesticides have been conclusively linked.According to an April 2010 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) sponsored study conducted by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), part of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 250, 000 of the 696, 842 U.S. servicemen and women in the 1991 Gulf War continue to suffer from chronic multi-symptom illness, popularly known as "Gulf War Illness" or "Gulf War Syndrome." The IOM found that the chronic multi-symptom illness continues to affect these veterans nearly 20 years after the war, and, "the excess of unexplained medical symptoms reported by deployed [1991] Gulf war veterans cannot be reliably ascribed to any known psychiatric disorder." According to the IOM, "It is clear that a significant portion of the soldiers deployed to the Gulf War have experienced troubling constellations of symptoms that are difficult to categorize, " said committee chair Stephen L. Hauser, professor and chair, department of neurology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). "Unfortunately, symptoms that cannot be easily quantified are sometimes incorrectly dismissed as insignificant and receive inadequate attention and funding by the medical and scientific establishment. Veterans who continue to suffer from these symptoms deserve the very best that modern science and medicine can offer to speed the development of effective treatments, cures, and we hope prevention. Our report suggests a path forward to accomplish this goal, and we believe that through a concerted national effort and rigorous scientific input, answers can be found." Questions still exist regarding why certain veterans showed, and still show, medically-unexplained symptoms while others did not, why symptoms are diverse in some and specific in others, and why combat exposure is not consistently linked to having or not having symptoms. The lack of data on veterans' pre-deployment and immediate post-deployment health status and lack of measurement and monitoring of the various substances to which veterans may have been exposed make it difficult and in many cases impossible to reconstruct what happened to service members during their deployments nearly 20 years after the fact, the committee.

Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. 166 p. Includes illustrations. Footnotes. In February 1991 GAO sponsored a conference, "U.S. Communications Policy: Issues for the 1990s, " in response to increasing congressional interest in this area. The conference brought together government officials, academicians, and industry executives, to explore and debate four critical policy issues in a series of round table discussions: how communications infrastructure should develop; the role of communications policy in promoting economic growth; allocations of the electromagnetic spectrum to support the growth of communications services; and whether the U.S. communications regulatory structure was effective. In preparing this publication, the GAO relied primarily on information developed during the four panel discussions. Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling.

Wraps. Presumed First Edition/first printing. 109 p. Includes illustrations. In the early morning of February 27, 1991, during the Persian Gulf War, Army Corporal Douglas Lance Fielder was unintentionally killed by U. S. soldiers who had mistaken him and his fellow engineers as the enemy. GAo was requested to determine the events that had led to the fratricide, assess the adequacy of U.S. Army investigations following that fratricide, and investigate allegations that Army officials hindered invistigations of the fratricide incident or influenced their outcome. From Wikipedia: "Fratricide (from the Latin words frater "brother" and cida "killer, " or cidum "a killing, " both from caedere "to kill, to cut down") is the act of a person killing his or her brother.Fratricide may also be used to refer to friendly fire incidents. It also refers to the possible destruction of one MIRV warhead by another. Targets may be arranged deliberately to increase the likelihood in a strategy called dense pack." Also from Wikipedia: "The Gulf War (2 August 1990 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Storm (17 January 1991 28 February 1991) was a war waged by a U.N. -authorized Coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. The war is also known under other names, such as the Persian Gulf War, First Gulf War, Gulf War I, or the First Iraq War, before the term "Iraq War" became identified instead with the 2003 Iraq War (also referred to in the U.S. as "Operation Iraqi Freedom"). Kuwait's invasion by Iraqi troops that began 2 August 1990 was met with international condemnation, and brought immediate economic sanctions against Iraq by members of the U.N. Security Council. U.S. President George H. W. Bush deployed U.S. forces into Saudi Arabia, and urged other countries to send their own forces to the scene. An array of nations joined the Coalition. The great majority of the Coalition's military forces were from the U.S., with Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and Egypt as leading contributors, in that order. Saudi Arabia paid around US$36 billion of the US$60 billion cost. The war was marked by the beginning of live news on the front lines of the fight, with the primacy of the U.S. network CNN. The war has also earned the nickname Video Game War after the daily broadcast images on board the U.S. bombers during Operation Desert Storm. The initial conflict to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait began with an aerial bombardment on 17 January 1991. This was followed by a ground assault on 24 February. This was a decisive victory for the Coalition forces, who liberated Kuwait and advanced into Iraqi territory. The Coalition ceased their advance, and declared a cease-fire 100 hours after the ground campaign started. Aerial and ground combat was confined to Iraq, Kuwait, and areas on Saudi Arabia's border. Iraq launched Scud missiles against Coalition military targets in Saudi Arabia and against Israel." Very good. Pencil ersasure residue on first page.