The Nation - News from Aug. 25, 1988

The Office of Government Ethics said it disagrees with the Justice Department’s decision last year to allow former Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese III’s wife, Ursula, to accept a free trip to China. Don Campbell, a spokesman at the ethics office, said Ursula Meese and Deborah Morris, the wife of Joseph Morris, head of the office of liaison services, accompanied the department delegation on the all-expenses-paid trip as a guest of People-To-People International of Kansas City, Mo., a nonprofit organization. Federal regulations prohibit relatives of federal employees from accepting trips and gifts. The ethics office plans no remedial action, Campbell said. The Justice Department paid for travel by the attorney general and other department employees.