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...Today show the existence of major espionage investigation "cases" against officials at a number of agencies resulting from evidence uncovered in the intelligence dossiers of the former Soviet Union and its once communist allies. Woolsey's loose lips infuriated congressional overseers and fbi investigators, prompting Woolsey to backtrack and say the "cases" were actually just "leads...
...find it will compromise security we will backtrack," said Nathans. "This still means the Yard is not wide open. Card keys are still necessary for entrance...
...would do if his daughter, now 13, grew up and had an unwanted pregnancy, he suggested that he would advise her to have the child but would support whatever decision she made -- including abortion. Pro-choice activists quickly said that sounded pro-choice to them, obliging Quayle to backtrack...
...Palestinian delegation must include a Jerusalem resident. The face-saving route around the impasse may lie in a house that al-Husseini has just completed in Ayn Siniya, a West Bank village 15 miles north of Jerusalem. Shamir, who has already rejected al- Husseini as a potential delegate, could backtrack and assert that al- Husseini is now a West Banker. And al-Husseini could take his seat, staunch in his conviction that he still speaks for Jerusalemites...
...Gorbachev is going to be thrown out--and I think there's every reason to believe that he probably will--then if you made all kinds of accommodations on the assumption that there is a brand new world order, you could find yourself embarrassed, having to backtrack, being called a dupe and also involving yourself in some things that would be much more costly if you have to try to gear up again after what did take place," Goldman says...