Word: search
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill would allow the CIA to tap the phones and search the premises of U.S. citizens or corporations in foreign countries, but only if the agency first obtained warrants from a special court. The CIA 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...
From the days of Columbus, most of the islands have been ravaged by colonial strife. Since World War II, many have been despoiled by commercial neocolonialists, with their genius for blanketing beach and meadow with concrete and neon. Few travelers in search of tranquillity and an authentic native culture would risk their dollars or digestions today on such tourist emporiums as San Juan and St. Maarten. The American Virgins have mostly been deflowered by developers; St. Croix has seen mindless racial killing. Trinidad and Jamaica, Barbados and the Bahamas have become tourist traps. Cuba and, to some extent, Haiti have...
...imports of machinery and food from the industrialized countries. Slow growth in the North likewise can be devastating for economies in the South. Says the report: "The world economy is now functioning so badly that it damages both the immediate and the longer-run interests of all nations. The search for solutions is not an act of benevolence but a condition of mutual survival." Both peace and continued prosperity in the industrialized nations will depend on success in developing the Third World...
...preliminary search shows the city of Cambridge has no investments in companies linked to South Africa to divest, George O'Brian, assistant city manager for fiscal affairs, said yesterday...
...which leaves Anderson to inhabit the abandoned tundra of the Republican center. And there he would have remained had not the press prematurely announced the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's candidacy, leaving many to search for a "liberal alternative...