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...certainly stretch out for months, probably even years. First the relevant Justice Department prosecutors must decide just which of the roughly 30 cases to pursue by seeking grand jury indictments. The department's plan seems to be to split up the cases, rather than consolidate them, and then present evidence to grand juries in New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. Any trials of indicted officials would be months away-and there could be lengthy legal clashes over the admissibility, for example, of the FBI's video tapes...
...would be permitted to use journalists, clergymen or academics as part-time agents or informers overseas, a practice that is now forbidden by the agency's own rules. Only U.S. citizens or resident aliens could look at the CIA's nonsensitive files on them; at present, under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA is required to show some files to almost any one who asks. The new charter would one who asks. The new charter would very specifically continue the ban on assassination...
...heart of Saudi Arabia's problem is the unfinished task of creating a modern state out of a cluster of Bedouin tribes that were unified by Abdul Aziz (Ibn Saud) under the present kingdom in 1932. The royal leadership is worried by the growing polarization of Saudi society; thousands of young Saudis return from the West every year with university degrees, only to chafe under a puritanical, semifeudal system designed to appease the disparate desert tribes. "When the graduates come back, they are given nice jobs with plenty of money," remarks one educated Saudi. "But how long they will...
...enforce its decision if and when it agrees to free the hostages. Early in the week, the militants called off a demonstration that had been scheduled to coincide with Banisadr's swearing-in ceremony, apparently because they feared the populace would not turn out. The number of militants present at the U.S. embassy was reported to have dropped from around 400 as of last month...
...Waverly repertory also includes more ambitious staged works. For Le Roman de Fauvel, a 14th century satirical fable about an ass who rises to rule the world, they use sets, elaborate masks and costumes. At times they expand their forces to the 23-member Waverly Waits in order to present large-scale compositions. It is a practice Jaffee would like to step up. He believes that the custom of performing early music in small groups is like representing the repertory of the 19th century solely through chamber music. "They had their equivalents of the Medici Philharmonic too," he says...