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No one had told the Navy about the measure. "Why should I?" asks Hamberger. "That's not my job." The Navy was infuriated. "It was all done before we knew anything about it," said a senior Defense Department official. "It was an abhorrent exercise of legislative prerogative." Last spring the...
At Laxalt's urging, the Reagan Administration, normally cool to such environmental overtures, went along. One reason: Laxalt helped negotiate "multiple use" privileges for cattle grazing and valid mining claims. Even so, it will take years for the new park to become fully operational, says Superintendent Al Hendricks. Hiking paths...
Since Khomeini came to power in 1979, tensions have been especially high during the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that annually attracts more than 2 million Muslims from some 130 countries. Khomeini viewed the sacred occasion as the ideal time to deliver his revolutionary message, but the Saudis blocked that...
Whatever the President's role in the diversion, North's sweeping testimony left the firm impression that the late CIA director William Casey had masterminded the covert operations that were designed to achieve two of Reagan's most cherished policy goals: to win the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon...
As the high court moved closer to its summer close, there was a flurry of other significant decisions. The Justices ruled 5 to 4 that because of its inflammatory nature, evidence of a murder's impact on the victim's family is not admissible at a death-sentencing hearing. The...