Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Safran had failed to disclose properly a CIA of grant of $45,700 for a conference on Islam and Muslim Politics held three months ago. Spence reached the same conclusion after a brief investigation prior to the conference, but allowed it to go forward after Safran agreed to reveal the CIA funding to all participants. More than half the scheduled participants boycotted the October meetings after learning of the CIA grant...
...farmers struggled through their worst times since the Depression and Washington spent record sums on agricultural subsidies, Congress wrestled with two measures aimed at a major reordering of federal farm policy. Last week, after eleven months of often acrimonious debate on a farm-assistance bill and a brief but tense four weeks writing legislation to rescue the Farm Credit System, the House and Senate passed both on successive days. Summing up the importance that he and Agriculture Committee Chairman Jesse Helms attached to passage of the measure, a complicated package that weighs 13 lbs., Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole pointed...
...Chris Cringle" I was able to locate is an inmate in a Flat Pig, Missouri, insane asylum. Perhaps Santa lives in the North Pole, you say. Guess again. Military satellite photos of the icecap have shown no evidence of Santa's workshop anywhere above the 66th parallel. A brief glimmer of hope for believers occurred in 1958, when a NATO radar team on patrol spotted a large mansion and toy factory. However, experts soon discovered this "Christmas Kingdom" to be nothing more than an abandoned Soviet missile tracking station...
That afternoon the Prime Minister released a brief, carefully worded statement. "Spying on the United States stands in total contradiction to our policy," it read. "Such activity, to the extent that it did take place, was wrong and the government of Israel apologizes." Peres vowed that if government officials were implicated in the espionage, "those responsible will be brought to account, the unit involved . . . will be completely and permanently dismantled, and necessary organizational steps will be taken to ensure that such activities are not repeated...
Gutwiilig does an equally impressive job as the wizened and dying John of Gaunt. He realistically portrays Richard's sagacious uncle whose raspy, yet piercing voice haunts Richard throughout the play. Gutwillig also plays the Abbot of Westminster and has a brief appearance as the Gardener. This latter role proves his flexibility as an actor since he successfully and humorously fulfills the part of a gossipy old man, as opposed to the serious and frustrated John of Gaunt...