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Reagan said the cutoff, of covert authority by Congress "was taking away the ability of the Executive Branch to carry out its constitutional responsibilities." Another member of the Administration, U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, impugned the motives of some members in an interview with a Buenos Aires newspaper: "There are people in the U.S. Congress who do not approve of our efforts to consolidate the constitutional government of El Salvador and who would actually like to see the Marxist forces take power in that country...
...draconian house-cleaning program. Stansfield Turner, director under President Carter, cut more than 800 jobs, leaving the agency to concentrate on the task of intelligence collection and assessment. An Executive order signed by President Carter prohibited involvement in assassination attempts, and Congress passed a law requiring the Executive Branch to certify that any anticipated intelligence activity was considered "important to the national security." By the time Reagan took office, the CIA had fewer than 200 clandestine operatives, compared to the more than 2,000 in the heyday of the 1960s...
...originally called the Museum of Modern Art in Boston. Located in a brownstone on Beacon St., the museum served as a venue for the traveling exhibitions of its New York parent, and at the instruction of MOMA, it concentrated on the Northern European modernist painters, leaving the New York branch to deal primarily with the Paris school of modernists. For some years this was a most fruitful setup for the tiny Boston MOMA. Oskar Kokoschka, Edvard Munch, and Georges Rouault were virtually unknown in this country when the ICA first exhibited their work...
...while at least, William Alderdice, 39, and his brother James, 26, seemed to have the Midas touch. During the past three years, they transformed a small storefront jewelry business in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., into the International Gold Bullion Exchange (IGBE), a thriving enterprise with 1,000 employees, branch offices in Dallas and Los Angeles, and 1982 sales of $80 million. William Alderdice, the company's chief executive, bragged that IGBE was the biggest gold and silver dealer in the U.S. In television commercials and ads splashed across such newspapers as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal...
Proof of Steve's popularity surfaced in Providence this February when more than 1500 students lined up in a driving blizzard to receive free ice cream at the grand opening of the branch there Owner Brian C. McLaughlin gave away 200 gallons of ice cream with mix-ins in less than eight hours...