Word: briefingate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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To the chagrin of Soviet scientists, the thought bacteria are everywhere. Following the evening news on TV, hypnotist Anatoli Kashpirovsky holds seances to heal broken limbs, scars and blindness. Kashpirovsky claims to have helped hundreds of people through surgery without anesthesia and to have mesmerized others into losing up to...
The question has taken root in the power circles of Washington. It is thrown up at every White House briefing. Congress, like a hungry dog with a new bone, is jubilantly chewing on it. The question will echo down through George Bush's remaining years of stewardship and on into...
That the situation in Panama was confused and information inadequate is nothing new for such incidents. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a crisis manager of considerable success, claims that in almost every crunch there is never enough information and always uncertainty, and the final decision must frequently ride more...
He also told reporters at a briefing that Bush's proposal did not include biological weapons, which some experts consider as deadly as poison gas.
More than half the White House's work flows through Porter's six In boxes --including an URGENT one for briefing papers and memos, many of which bear little blue handwritten notes imprinted FROM THE DESK OF GEORGE BUSH. Before signing on, Porter says with a chuckle, "I thought he...