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...Boston medical examiner's office would not confirm or deny that an autopsy would be performed, and police refused to comment on speculation among Shelton's friends and classmates that he may have committed suicide...
...next day, in a news conference at the general staff headquarters, Defense Minister Jose Guillermo Garcia replied to the inevitable questions: "Yes, there have been reports of some foreigners ... yes, black..." But in the end Garcia could not confirm that the Cuban existed. Perhaps the distinguished members of the press would be interested in a Nicaraguan prisoner-a commandante?Outside the room, ABC Producer Frank Manitzas performed a little skit, complete with Cuban accent: "Sure he was a Cuban. There he sat, with a big black cigar in his mouth, and said, 'Oye, chico-got a light...
Parigian adds that the results of the Coopers and Lybrand audit merely confirm what is already known to the government through previous audits--that there is no fraud, but a "lack of much documentation" in Harvard's management of federal funds...
Human rights violations in Nicaragua are difficult to confirm. Certainly the Sandinistas have demonstrated authoritarian impulses through several incidents of censorship and the persecution of opposition leaders. Yet three leading members of the right were recently released from prison, among other positive steps taken since the overthrow of Samoza...
Though Israeli officials neither confirm nor deny the charges, they point out that the incidents supposedly took place in the '50s, and claim that they would never occur today. They contend, moreover, that much of the report is "disinformation" engineered by the Soviet Union...