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...detailing the elaborate private network that was set up by Oliver North to funnel arms to the contras and initiate the failed weapons-for-hostages deals with Iran, Secord painted a picture that was far more horrifying than he seemed to realize. It showed the scope of the Administration's deceit in circumventing the congressional ban on military aid to the contras and the depths of its hypocrisy in violating the Government's proclaimed policy against dealing with terrorists. Secord also showed, again with little awareness of its significance, how dangerous it can be when the Government seeks to avoid...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) this year has instituted a number of changes in its annual course guide in an attempt to widen the scope and increase the information in the book, editors said last week...
...interrogated in a worldwide investigation of embassy security. Marine Commandant P.X. Kelley has endorsed an internal Corps memorandum suggesting that the Justice Department assist the Navy in its probe. The memo's rationale is that American civilians will soon by implicated and that military investigators are overburdened by the scope of the scandal. Three Marine guards have been charged with espionage and one with fraternizing with Soviet women. Another Leatherneck suspected of spying has been recalled from his station in Brazil, where he was living with a Russian woman he met during a tour of duty at the Moscow embassy...
Although it's not as new as the latest IBM's, the Compaq 386 remains one of the few available and the only reliable high-powered IBM compatibles. Because it'll be a year before you can purchase the same amount of computing power from IBM, it pays to scope out the Compaq...
Those who argue against Women's Studies also point to the comparatively small number of works by or about women; they believe few of these evidence great thought. And they add that the field does not provide a true "liberal arts" education, because it is both narrow in scope and politically biased...