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Clearly there's something strange about Goldwater's conduct, just as there is something strange about the CIA, whose actions throughout the year seem to have been in direct contradiction of the laws that supposedly bind it. The CIA is carrying on what amounts to a war with Nicaragua, without regulation, without government input other than the interests of the executive, and with what seems to be a tacit understanding between the bureau head and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee...
...major role behind the crisis. However, individuals in bank board rooms throughout the West made conscious decisions in the '70s to make choices which seem, in retrospect, to be foolhardy risks. The actions of a very small number of bank executives have put the American people in a real bind. Hopefully these same bankers will find their own was out of the mess without a major social and governmental shake up, like the Crash...
With many of the procedural reforms already in place, Redesign's appeal turns on personality, act institutions. Important with extensive rules that will bind and families the relationships between people, Keverian has said he will have his new candidacy on new blood and a healthy outlook. As he told the House in a recent speech, "My dream was that as Speaker I would provide access, I would not be dictatorial, I would be thoughtful. I would be compassionate...
...Lebanon to be part of "Greater Syria," a vague concept of territorial grandeur that thrives more in memory than in reality. Indeed, the two countries share more than a millennium of history (see box). Both Lebanon and Syria achieved independence in the 1940s, but cultural and family ties still bind their populations, the Sunnis and the Druze...
...entire film has that air about it, caught as it is in a double bind. The facts it can lay its hands on do not support a politically alarming or dramatically compelling conclusion to the mysteries of this case. Nor do they lead to a very uplifting statement about the motives and character of its central figure. On the other hand, the passage of time has not yet burnished away the ambiguities surrounding this affair, which might have permitted a purely mythic, Gandhi-like approach. In short, the moviemakers are backed into a corner from which neither show-biz sophistry...