Word: branches
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After a year of study and refinement in the Executive Branch, the Strategic Defense Initiative now implicitly accepts the impracticality of a leakproof umbrella. Instead it adopts the somewhat more modest "interim" goal of "enhancing," rather than replacing, deterrence based on offensive weapons. The idea is that Soviet plans for an attack would be further complicated by even an imperfect American defense...
...source of the allegations is Daniel Charboneau, 52, a former Roman Catholic priest who arrived in Seoul in 1978 as a Bechtel employee and now teaches English at U.S. Army camps in South Korea. Charboneau says that he regularly cashed Bechtel checks at the local Bank of America branch and then handed the money to the company's Korean-American consultant, Yoon Sik Cho, 61. From Cho the money may have gone directly to South Korean officials, but the evidence remains circumstantial. Last week Charboneau, whose perusal of business records led him to suspect Cho of using the funds...
...strengthened in his natural tendency to tell them no more than the law requires. Says one official who worked closely with Casey during that period: "Casey gets mad, and he also tries to get even. The attacks from the Hill just compounded an existing disdain for the legislative branch of Government...
Kuhn, who also financed the event, will be partially reimbursed by the Boston branch of the nationwide creative anachronism organization. None of the lecturers, artisans, or performers were paid for their services...
...Lebanon that claimed 241 American lives and, ultimately, forced a U.S. withdrawal from Lebanon. Yet last week, on two occasions, the President chose to amend that judgment radically and somewhat petulantly, blaming Congress for the most serious U.S. foreign policy failure of his Administration. Reagan also faulted the Legislative Branch on its performance in other foreign policy issues, including Central America, evidently succumbing to a time-honored tradition of incumbent Presidents during years divisible by four: if something goes wrong, run against Congress...