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...Secord, as he claimed, a disinterested patriot acting at Government request to attain what he thought were worthy foreign policy goals? Or was he out for profit? Secord repeatedly insisted that from mid-1985 on he "forswore" any profit. Liman pressed Secord about closed-door testimony taken previously from Robert Dutton, an associate in the contra supply network. Dutton had said Secord considered selling the network's assets, which eventually included five aircraft and facilities in El Salvador and Costa Rica, to the CIA for $4 million. Wrong, said Secord: he intended, once Congress permitted a resumption of open Government...
...series of rapid-fire discoveries, researchers around the world have begun concocting a different class of materials that become superconductors at significantly higher temperatures -- levels that, while still beyond the reach of a kitchen refrigerator, are easier and less costly to attain. These achievements have had an electrifying effect on a subject that just a year ago would have elicited yawns from physicists and blank stares from politicians. Indeed, hardly a week has passed since the New York City meeting without reports from competing scientists -- in the popular press as well as in professional journals -- of new superconducting materials...
...hospital proposed the joint venture hoping to alleviate the present need for parking near the hospital and to attain increased income from the currently unused land, said Lawrence E. Martin, MGH's associate general director...
...four officials agreed that assured survival in the nuclear age was possible, but diverged sharply over the means to attain lasting peace. The Soviet representatives charged that the Reagan administration'sStrategic Arms Defense Initiative (SDI) wouldhamper progress towards nuclear cooperation...
Rossignol's stock recovered somewhat last week, but prospects for the French ski team are still discouraging. "The only way for them now is up," says a Rossignol spokesman hopefully. In the world of downhill skiing, however, that is not the easiest direction to attain...