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...alleged interference “undermine[d] the jurisdiction and powers of national authorities able to make decisions regarding who should lead a special investigations unit.” The U.S. Department of State countered that the U.S. has had peaceful, non-intrusive relations with the country. Regardless of whether the U.S. is guilty of the accusations, the scandal’s message sends negative signals to the rest of Latin America. This is not the kind of positive image America ought to be cultivating with Latin American countries...
...Black Chamber," America's first codebreaking agency founded in 1919, and its head, Herbert Yardley: "When Herbert Hoover took control of the White House and named Henry L. Stimson secretary of state, the existence of the Black Chamber remained secret even to the incoming administration...After a few months had passed, Yardley decided that Stimson had settled in well enough to be informed and provided the secretary of state with a handful of decrypted Japanese messages...Outraged, he famously exclaimed, 'Gentlemen do not read each other's mail,' and sought to immediately shut down Yardley's operation...
...synthesizer riff enters. It’s wonderful how Q-Tip combines disparate musical elements, both past and present, into one cohesive head-nodding unit. Lyrically, Q-Tip is in top form as well. What stands out on “The Renaissance” is not so much individual lines but the sensitive and intelligent way Q-Tip treats his subject matter. Whether he is rapping about his romantic relationships, familial bonds, or the state of hip-hop, Q-Tip can always be depended upon to be tasteful and insightful. On standout track “We Fight/We Love...
...General Accounting Office, Congress's independent investigative unit, which presented dismaying evidence that much of the $27 million in nonlethal aid donated to the contras by the U.S. last year never got to them. Of $3.3 million given to one broker for the contras, only $150,000 was actually sent to Central America. Most of the money went to American companies and individuals, and $380,000 was funneled into offshore bank accounts on Grand Cayman Island or in the Bahamas. Alluding to President Reagan's controversial comparison of the contras to America's founders, Democratic Congressman Gerry Studds quipped...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Surrounded by pink flowers and an audience of reporters, First Lady Hillary Clinton sat by the fireplace in the State Dining Room, wrapped in a piped pink sweater, her lips covered in a thick red gloss, her forehead hidden behind a wall of bangs. The...