Word: controller
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Many countries have increased their contributions to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, the pre-eminent organization in the distribution of birth-control information and devices. The Soviet Union began giving UNFPA hard currency last year for the first time. But the U.S. has contributed nothing to the fund since 1985. Reason: UNFPA conducts programs in nations like China, where abortions are encouraged -- a situation politically unacceptable to the Reagan and Bush Administrations. The U.S. also refuses to give money to the International Planned Parenthood Federation because it actively supports abortion...
...that it would form its own militia to protect the city from McGee's group. Other whites distributed racist literature in local factories. McGee's proposal to extend a street named for King into white areas seems doomed. He has also lost a fight in the council to transfer control of a jobs program from the county to the city. "We've got two worlds here," he said dejectedly after that defeat. "One black. One white. And there's an invisible Berlin Wall that separates...
Mecham's comeback began last winter when he and his supporters, known as "Evanistas," once again took control of the Republican Party, winning a resolution at the state convention declaring the U.S. a "Christian nation." The Republican speaker of the house and the leader of the senate, who had voted to impeach Mecham, were defeated in primaries. On the highways, EV WAS RIGHT bumper stickers began to outnumber EVAN THE TERRIBLE. It was a remarkable turnaround for a Governor who became a laughingstock for defending the use of the word pickaninny and swearing his office was bugged with lasers...
...immediate future, the paramount concern for both Washington and Moscow will be monitoring compliance with arms-control agreements. By the end of the year the U.S. and the Soviets will most likely sign five arms agreements, including a new START treaty. All will probably require permanent on-site monitoring of U.S. and Soviet defense facilities, providing many potential listening posts from which to observe and steal classified data from either Soviet military researchers or American defense contractors. With perhaps two dozen START sites involved, in contrast to the one site each called for in the 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces...
These changes will lead to some significant reallotments within the estimated $30 billion U.S. intelligence budget. Funds for counterintelligence and arms-control monitoring are likely to go up. However, it should be possible to save some of the enormous resources currently spent by U.S. military intelligence. These include the expensive listening and cryptographic programs that keep track of the Soviet order of battle and intercept Warsaw Pact communications. Cuts may also be made in satellite programs aimed at tactical intelligence gathering...