Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech in 1969 in Dunster House which helped him land on president Nixon's second "Enemies List"--Calkins was a natural for dealing with disgrunted students. During the strike, he penned masterful press releases for the Corporation and once even stormed into The Crimson--where he had served a brief stint as President in 1942--to type a rebuttal to what he felt was a distortion of his views on a Yard poster...
...know, from service as Chairman of the College's Administrative Board of current versions of these events. So, with a brief reference to the installation of central heating. I assured my new friend in Palo Alto that things had not changed much at all in the Yard...
Republicans sharply noted that the probe did not even determine precisely what briefing materials were involved. The two Republicans on the six-member panel refused to endorse the report, saying in their dissenting statement, "If we cannot ascertain exactly what was taken and who took it, then how can we determine what laws were broken?" Reagan remains fiercely loyal to Casey, an old friend. While he has maintained his characteristic detachment from the mini-scandals in his Administration, the President last week attended a groundbreaking ceremony for a new building at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., where he praised Casey...
...brief to the appeals court last week, the Justice Department defended its probe. Despite the admissions and contradictions of top officials who were questioned, including CIA Director William Casey and White House Chief of Staff James Baker, the department argued that there is inadequate "specific" information to warrant a further investigation. Argues the appeals brief: "None of this amounts to a crime, or even indicates the time, place or manner of a potential crime...
What Israeli Novelist Aharon Appelfeld relates in this brief, matter-of-fact story, more parable than novel, is the dissolution of life at the imagined spa. In volume after volume the author has been obsessed with the time of clouded horror just before the Holocaust. Two previous novels, Badenheim 1939 and The Age of Wonders, take place in prewar Austria. Tzili: The Story of a Life is a fictional account partly based on Appelfeld's escape from a concentration camp at the age of nine and his three years of hiding from the Nazis in the Ukrainian countryside...