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...IDAF, by providing funds for lawyers, serves a "priceless" function, Gomes says. Because most South Africans tried for political crimes have little money, they have difficulty obtaining lawyers, since there is no free public defense in South Africa. The IDAF, says Gomes, offers the necessary financial stimulus...
...Sandinista regime with funneling arms to and fomenting revolution in neighboring El Salvador at the behest of Cuba and the Soviet Union. The White House has continuously vowed to halt that activity by any means possible. Among those means has been backing the contras, on the grounds that their function has been to interdict the flow of arms from Nicaragua...
...Instead, education should set the standards for a society. The reforms recommended by the National Commission on Excellence in Education can help youngsters who have the potential to be educated. However, the proposals cannot compensate for role models that are lacking in the home. Education should follow its traditional function and resist social experimentation...
Midnight was approaching. Republican Paul Trible of Virginia and Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont were in black tie, restlessly unable to attend a social function. Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, 74, decided to go home and go to bed. Howard Baker in effect threw in the towel. He asked the Senate to reconsider the Gorton compromise. "I did not support it, and I do not support it," he said. "I don't like what I am doing." But Baker argued that the Senate must try to pass some resolution and then fight out the issue in conference committee meetings with...
...raise the stakes as high as they liked. The card sense that poker requires is not especially rarefied; the limit chiselers at the other Vegas casinos know as much about probabilities as the sportsmen at Binion's. What distinguishes the heavyweights is that broke or flush, they can function at financial altitudes that paralyze everyone else. "The money freezes you up, and you become tight-weak," one contestant in formed Alvarez, describing his introduction to the major leagues. His colleagues agree. "If money is your god, you can for get no-limit poker, because it's going...