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...control of Congress these last few weeks, they were eager to bring this to a vote; the activists believe in the value of the issue, the strategists in the value of forcing Democrats to vote against proposals that large majorities of Americans support. In the new Congress, the Democrats' agenda does not include placing new restrictions on abortion or making women think harder before having one. But that just means the argument will be moving to new battlegrounds...
...Cuban dictator] Fidel Castro, instead of just ‘stick’ him.” After three instances of covert diplomatic contact in the early 1960s—the first with Cuban official Ernesto “Che” Guevara to discuss Castro’s agenda; the second, a meeting concerning prisoner exchange; the third, a series of talks which dissolved after squabbles—the White House under John F. Kennedy ’40 chose not to build on these successes, Hernández said. And Kennedy simultaneously employed confrontational strategies with this...
...Future TV and Hizballah's Al-Manar network have been accusing their sectarian rivals of stoking the conflict. A key Sunni cleric, Sheikh Ali al-Jozo, the mufti of Mount Lebanon, has repeatedly attacked Hizballah, describing Nasrallah as a "dictator" and accusing him of advancing a foreign, Syrian-Iranian agenda...
...shrouded in secrecy, past and current CIA employees accused Gates of cooking the books on the Soviet threat. As then-Director William Casey's intelligence analysis chief and later deputy director in the 1980s, Gates had shaped intelligence reports to suit Casey's and Ronald Reagan's anti-Soviet agenda, agency critics charged...
...Goodman, a former division chief in SOVA, testified at Gates's hearing that "Casey seized on every opportunity to exaggerate the Soviet threat... Gates's role in this activity was to corrupt the process and the ethics of intelligence on all of these issues... He pandered to Casey's agenda." Goodman accused Gates of trying to change SOVA reports stating that the Soviet empire was in decline. Two other CIA analysts who were still in the agency at the time also sent in sworn affidavits to the Senate Intelligence Committee accusing Gates of politicizing intelligence...