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A year after it passed the 1984 Boland Amendment banning U.S. military assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras, Congress received news reports that North, then a Marine lieutenant colonel, was secretly raising money for the rebels from foreign countries and private donors and providing tactical military advice.
Another line of questioning, however, may eventually damage Tower even more. Between 1986 and late 1988, he was paid $750,000 in consulting fees by several major defense contractors. He had earlier served as chief American negotiator in START talks aimed at limiting strategic nuclear missiles. He told the committee...
Most important of all, affection for guns runs deep in the American psyche, as evidenced by the common estimate that 50 million to 60 million U.S. households, about half the total, own at least one gun. And many of those households are convinced that gun ownership is an inalienable right...
Committee members said this week that they are not seriously considering enforcing a dry campus policy. Committee Chair Ray A. Palmer said that a policy banning alcohol might reduce consumption, but would create a major enforcement problem.
When scientists first warned in the 1970s that CFCs could attack ozone, the U.S. responded by banning their use in spray cans. (Manufacturers switched to such environmentally benign substitutes as butane, the chemical burned in cigarette lighters.) But the rest of the world continued to use CFC-based aerosol cans...