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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations 
of Stephen J. Swift and Joel Gerber, both of Virginia, each to be a 
Judge of the United States Tax Court, Troy Hamilton Cribb, of the 
District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Thomas 
R. Saving, of Texas, and John L. Palmer, of New York, each to be a 
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust 
Fund, and Mark A. Weinberger, of Maryland, and Gerald M. Shea, of the 
District of Columbia, each to be a Member of the Social Security 
Advisory Board, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf. Mr. Cribb was introduced by Senator Hollings.
U.S. SIERRA LEONE POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs 
concluded hearings on issues relating to United States policy regarding 
Sierra Leone, focusing on recent civil conflicts and what can be done 
to help bring peace and justice to the country, after receiving 
testimony from Susan E. Rice, Assistant Secretary of State for African 
Affairs; William Reno, Northwestern University Department of Political 
Science, Evanston, Illinois; and Adotei Akwei, Amnesty International 
USA, Washington, D.C.