Work Week

Last week the President also:

P: Greeted Indonesia's peripatetic President Sukarno at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington with full ceremonial honors and a 21-gun salute. (Sukarno never forgave Dwight Eisenhower for once keeping him waiting ten minutes for an appointment.) The two Presidents conferred for four hours, then issued a communique calling for a neutral Laos and declaring that newly independent nations "must be alert to any attempts to subvert their cherished freedom by means of imperialism in all its manifestations." Carefully avoided: any U.S. comment on Indonesia's claim to Netherlands New Guinea. Also diplomatically hushed up was the fact that another distinguished visitor from abroad slipped into Washington while Sukarno was on hand. The unheralded guest: Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands.

P: Proposed "a comprehensive revision of existing conflict-of-interest statutes." Under it, present law would be eased for consultants who work only part time for the Government. But it would also be toughened to provide stiff penalties for officials who try to wangle favors for friends or associates. Other key points: 1) members of federal regulatory agencies would be forbidden to confer privately with persons involved in cases that are to be decided only on the records of formal hearings; 2) Government officials would be prohibited from "switching sides" and joining a private company on cases that they had handled for the U.S.; 3) federal employees would be barred from accepting virtually all kinds of outside work and gifts; 4) presidential appointees, while in office, would no longer be permitted to accept payment for lectures, articles or books based on their experience in Government.

P: Asked that Congress expand the federal-scholarship program by raising the number of federally financed university scholarships from 1,500 to 5,000 per year and doubling the annual amount--to $500,000--that each university may receive in federal-scholarship loans.

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