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...despondent over his Iran-contra role that he tried to commit suicide. Last week the troubles of former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane continued. He became the first Reagan Administration official to plead guilty to crimes in the scandal. After negotiations with Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, McFarlane, 50, admitted that on four occasions in 1985 and 1986 he unlawfully withheld information from Congress about the National Security Council's secret military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...
North, who was fired from his job as a National Security Council aide in late 1986, said: "I did not commit any crime. I intend to fight the allegations of wrongdoing for as long as necessary...
...four defendants were charged with conspiracy to defraud the government and commit criminal offenses against it, theft of government property and wire fraud arising from the diversion of arms-sale proceeds...
...have a commitment to the urban area," Stern says. "There's a need for people to work in urban areas and commit themselves." The problem with urban schools, Stern says, is the high turnover rate among teachers and administrators, which creates general instability in the system. "It just gets worse and worse because you get less support and less opportunity. The good [teachers] leave and go somewhere else and there's more turnover...
...unflinching account, published anonymously in the Jan. 8 Journal of the American Medical Association, was the first such confession ever to appear in a U.S. medical journal. With stark candor and dramatic detail, it spotlighted one of U.S. medicine's most controversial issues: the extent to which American doctors commit mercy killings. The report has prompted a storm of protest and a flurry of letters to J.A.M.A., most of which were from physicians who condemned the resident's behavior as both illegal and unethical. New York City Mayor Edward Koch was so horrified by the J.A.M.A. account that he asked...