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...half the world's annual production. If found guilty, the Hunts and the others could face fines approaching $1 million. Moreover, they could be barred from commodity futures markets. A Hunt lawyer, Walter Roach, called the accusations baseless and said the brothers would fight them. "The Hunts were totally aboveboard," he said...
...with the policy," says one State Department official. "It's just that we cannot see what else would work and still receive any kind of support." On the Hill, there has been some discussion of dispatching nonmilitary aid to the families of the contra combatants or finding some other, aboveboard way to aid the rebels. Last week Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger suggested that he might support formal trade sanctions on the economically tottering country, which he said still "unabashedly exports subversion and terrorism...
Keller is entirely aboveboard about her firm commitment to the Core experiment, her next paragraph numbers President Bok, Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, and Core task force chairman James Q. Wilson among those who criticized and reviewed the book in manuscript. For the reader truly skeptical of the Core's philosophy, her account is likely to be more historically than philosophically interesting, more rationale than investigative debate...
...pile so much generosity about your head that you are brought to your knees in response. There is the next-of-kin enemy as well, who takes out on a loved one the wickedness he intends for you. Finally, there is the worthiest of the lot, the open-and-aboveboard enemy, who declares straight out that he yearns for your obliteration. Unfortunately, people of this type are so admirable that the temptation to convert them to friends may be overwhelming. This one must resist. If it is true that former friends make the best enemies, the converse is also true...
Gwaltney, following the lead of interviewers like Studs Terkel, lets dozens of average people talk into his tape recorder. He didn't seek out activists or politicians; he seemed, instead, to meet many of the sort of people respected for living quiet, aboveboard lives; the they hate, so much and with so much fire, is what makes this book so scary...