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...influence on receiving the money in September," said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. Noted Abrams: "By September there will be in excess of 15,000 men inside Nicaragua fighting hard, and I don't think it's going to be so easy for the Democrats to say, 'Let's abandon them...
Nevertheless, neither side can be expected to abandon SDI research at this time, since the possibility of unexpected successes cannot be ruled out. What may be even more important and realistic is that the concentration of resources on the cutting edge of technology may result in important spinoffs in peaceful and military fields, such as in computer science. I still believe all these considerations and possibilities to be secondary in comparison with the enormous cost of SDI and the negative influence of SDI on strategic stability and disarmament negotiations...
...often been suggested by weak-minded theologians that we should abandon violent confrontation and settle our disputes through conversation or by playing a game of some sort, but this is foolish for we would still need an arms buildup in order to kill the enemy in case they cheated...
City officials are also concerned that the government might abandon its belief that the financial sector should be largely self-regulated. Under the new law, virtually all of Britain's financial-services areas, including securities, Eurobonds, commodities and foreign exchange, will be governed by a series of self-regulatory organizations. Their activity, in turn, will be supervised by the Securities Investment Board, a private-sector body whose decisions are backed by the force of the law. Says SIB Chairman Sir Kenneth Berrill: "The aim in the U.K. was to get the rules applied and interpreted by practitioners...
...addressing the Harvard Model Congress yesterday. Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 blasted the Tower Commission report saying its conclusions about his participation in the Iran-contra affair were "completely wrong." Weinberger also said that he and Secretary of State George F. Shultz repeatedly advised President Reagan to abandon the arms-for-hostages policy...