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Graham added that the allegedly racially-motivated evictions were part of a "pattern that's going on across the country, but the urgency and scope" of this case makes it "particularly shocking...
Another question for Reagan is whether the defensive devices he envisions have a reasonable chance of working. Enough scientists accept the theory to make it worth pursuing. Besides, visions of this scope are not necessarily the province of the technical experts. After World War II, one of America's top scientists, Vannevar Bush, delivered this wisdom for the ages: "There need be little fear of an intercontinental missile in the form of a pilotless aircraft." And many of the instant critics of Reagan's idea, like former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, were not all that prescient when...
Because the scope of the work in the as assessment and the current plan differ drastically, many items now proposed do not appear on the 1981 document. But several items are comparable...
...some activists are uneasy about the scope of state involvement, questioning whether government will move beyond an advisory role. "I am very unclear why we didn't go further with what we were doing at the governor's meeting," says Steven Gary, a task force sub-committee member...
...which could be lengthened still further were Israel's actions in the territories occupied in 1967 to be included) has been obscured and forgotten. It is not so much a criticism of the content of the Israeli Commission's report as it is of the exclusivity of its scope to note that the subject of the broader violations of international law committed by Israel in the invasion of Lebanon has now been dropped from public discussion...