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...individuals were named in last week's charges or identified by the company, even though the Hutton branch managers benefited because they were given bonuses equal to 10% of their branch profits. That immediately raised charges of Justice Department favoritism toward Big Business. Meese lamely attempted to explain his decision not to go after any Hutton employees, saying it was necessary to give immunity "to push the investigation along." He added, "It didn't seem fair to subsequently charge other individuals for doing identical acts...
...reconciliation ceremony. It was this act, symbolizing the restoration of friendship, that stood at the heart of the controversy roiling around them. Buried in the soil of Bitburg were the remains not only of ordinary German fighting men but also of 49 members of the Waffen SS, a branch of the elite Nazi guard that ran the death camps, though the Waffen SS did not serve in that capacity...
...Washington Post-ABC News poll published last week, 52% of respondents wished Reagan would cancel his visit to the Bitburg cemetery, which contains the graves of 2,000 German soldiers, most of them killed during World War II, including 49 members of the Waffen SS, the combat branch of Hitler's murderous elite guard. Reagan's overall job-approval rating in the same poll dropped to 54%, from 60% in late March and a dazzling 68% in January...
...sunlight yellow that surrounded her." Reality is hard to hold; at 17, Gloria finds herself staring hard at visitors, "because if I didn't keep my eyes on them they might all disappear in a puff of the . . . cigarette." She imagines a sofa as "a nest on the topmost branch of a tree where I'm safe and nothing can harm...
...quite apparent to me that when Westmoreland pulled out, after his chief of intelligence. Gen Joseph McChristian, and the chief of the order of battle branch responsible for putting together enemy strength figures, one called what the general had done "improper," the other called what he was asked to do by MACA command "dishonest," it seems to me that these two men who had specific and discreet knowledge of the charges leveled in the documentary, and each of them appeared is witnesses for us, it would seem to indicate that the basis of our story was accurate...