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...impression I always sided with the President is wrong," Bork said. "My record is not one of unvarying support for the executive branch. I will give you a fair shake. I will give everybody a fair shake...
...began writing to children in Pittsburgh about farm life in winter. "Cows aren't smart enough to paw through the snow like horses, so you have to feed them," one child explained. A Sioux student on a reservation in South Dakota wrote candidly about what is happening to one branch of the tribe: "Life for the Lakota people is going in a downward direction . . . To control it would take great human power or magic...
...would eventually provoke a controversy. No matter how "voluntary" the program, the notion of methodically asking people who were not individually suspect to submit to an intrusive procedure simply because they were black raised some worrisome racial and civil-liberties issues. Said James Lieber, executive director of the Pittsburgh branch of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Blacks must relinquish their privacy or become suspect." N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks said it looked like "police power run amuck." William Penn, director of N.A.A.C.P.'s local branches, feared an "open season on black people...
...1/2-hour week, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, as a clerk for Oral B Laboratories, a toothbrush maker in Redwood City, Calif. Then, on Sunday afternoons and Monday and Tuesday evenings, she clocks an additional 13 hours selling sheets and towels at a branch of Macy's department store. "It takes a toll," says Davis of her 50 1/2-hour work week. Nonetheless, she expects to continue moonlighting for at least a year to pay off debts she ran up before losing a previous job in San Diego...
Longhofer's operations units racked up some other successes. In 1983, one branch set up a helicopter surveillance project in Korea to monitor North Korean agents crossing the demilitarized zone at night. The same year, they supplied Bushmaster rapid-firing cannons to the CIA, which mounted them on speedboats and used them to blow up a Nicaraguan oil refinery. Also Seaspray transferred some of its special helicopters to the CIA; several Seaspray pilots left the Army and were hired by the CIA as civilian employees. They then flew the choppers in direct attacks on the Sandinistas...