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...helps to be persuaded by Hersh's attempts earlier in the book to prove that Kennedy "must have" been in communication with Giancana--or at least that he was briefed before the 1960 election by Bissell or CIA Director Allen Dulles about the covert operations in Cuba approved by Dwight Eisenhower. Like Richard Nixon, Hersh believes Kennedy must have been, but Dark Side never proves...
...that brought Milwaukee the nation's first publicly financed voucher system. Earlier this year, when the Texas state legislature came within one vote of establishing a publicly funded voucher program, the supporters included Ron Wilson, a black Democratic legislator from Houston. In Philadelphia, the logic of vouchers has hit Dwight Evans, a black state legislator who plans to run for mayor in 1999 and who has his own poll that shows strong black support for the idea. "We need to stop making the argument that we shouldn't be looking at options [besides the public system]," he says...
...Internet was first created in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik 40 years ago. Then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) as a part of the Department of Defense...
According to Dwight H. Perkins, Burbank professor of political economy at the Harvard Institute for International Development, contractors who produce shoes for Nike in Vietnam must pay a generous official minimum wage for foreign producers...
...Dwight Dwayne Adanandus isn't a name you're likely to remember in a hurry. Yet the Texas penitentiary inmate made history Wednesday night when he was executed by lethal injection, becoming the 57th convicted murderer put to death in the United States this year. That's the highest annual number of executions in the last 40 years. And with three months still to go, 1997 looks set to surpass 1957, when 65 people were executed nationwide...