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...support for Israel. We are not asking for the U.S. to abandon its own aid to Israel, but we want the aid to be economic rather than in the form of weapons that make Israel a threat to all around...
...agency's critics, sputtering anew as various versions of the Administration's proposal were leaked, revised and leaked again, received some strong bipartisan support last week. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee recommended that the Administration abandon its plan to permit the CIA to infiltrate and influence domestic groups, a key part of the proposed Executive Order. In a cryptic defense of the plan, an Administration official says, "Our aim is to allow flexibility...
...produced a musical foundation on which Jagger and Richards built the many styles they explored and eventually mastered later on. It is, for instance, the conscious distance of the bluesman from his subject that gives Stones songs their biting irony. And at the same time, it is the reckless abandon of a Chicago blues jam that separates the Stones from those who would polish rock and roll into a smooth, blunt weapon. The band members never saw themselves as a part of a British Invasion--not musically, at least. They wanted that "really good funky American sound," from the start...
...emphasis on these exams--which test knowledge of individual academic subjects on terms dictated by ETS and the College Board if teachers felt compelled to prepare students specifically for the achievements. The answer for Slack and Porter is one that admissions offices and ETS would consider a step backwards: abandon the SAT, use other standardized exams to a limited extent, and place even more stock in high school grades and recommendations...
Many apologists for the Reagan cuts have said private industry will take over the research effort University's abandon. Bogorad disagreed, saying that representatives from the private sector at the conference--among them vice presidents from Exxon and Ford--said theirs and other companies could not make up for the basic research...