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...Polish crisis continued to escalate, President Reagan took time Tuesday to meet a Vatican-sponsored delegation headed by Dr. Howard H. Hiatt, dean of the School of Public Health, that urged an increased effort to abolish nuclear weapons. The meeting was the first of several that will take place between emissaries of Pope John Paul II and leaders of four of the five recognized nuclear powers. Hiatt and three other experts told the president that casualties from a single megaton explosion in Washington, D.C., would overwhelm the area's medical facilities, a suggestion Reagan reportedly did not dispute. Hiatt said...
...Howard H. Hiatt, dean of the School of Public Health, met with President Reagan yesterday as part of a delegation sponsored by the Vatican urging him to strengthen efforts to abolish nuclear weapons...
...Cabinet but sometimes is considered a bit of a joke, is going to go back home and, perhaps, run for Governor of South Carolina. Reagan often ridiculed the Energy Department during his campaign, saying that it had never produced a barrel of oil. He has pledged to abolish the agency and get the Government out of the energy business...
...parts of two days last year, on Oct. 1, and again on Dec. 16, the Government was nominally shut down. Congressional leaders have long maintained that such confrontations are needless: day-to-day functions should go on, they argue, because there is plainly no "legislative intent" to abolish Government...
...when the naval intelligence branch for which he was working, known as Task Force 157, was being disbanded by Navy Rear Admiral Bobby Inman. Wilson tried to persuade Inman to save Task Force 157 by offering what Inman took to be a bribe; the admiral, offended, immediately decided to abolish the operation. In 1980 Wilson was indicted on charges of illegally shipping explosives to Libya. He has been a fugitive, mainly in Tripoli, since then. In a series of articles over the past five months, the New York Times has described how Wilson and former CIA Colleague Frank Terpil have...