Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North beckoned, however. "Why shouldn't I go to the best law school there is?" he asked himself. He applied to Harvard, was admitted and got tuition, books and $100 a month support money from the Veterans Administration. The reason: during his brief Army service, spent training at the University of Alabama, he suffered an injury that developed into a double hernia. Pepper's appreciation for both education and a benevolent Uncle Sam was never to leave him: "I get so burned up when anybody tries to cut back on the money available to help needy students...
Some U.S. officials are now proposing that COCOM be given the resources and the authority to examine the potential military use of any Western technology before it is sold to the Soviet Union. Western Europe, as Kohl tactfully made known during his brief Washington foray, is leery of that notion. The Chancellor's soul mate in the White House may have other ideas...
Last week's game of cat-and-mouse may be a small sign that the veneer is about to crack. Following Walesa's brief detention, Solidarity leaders issued a call for widespread protest demonstrations in Poland on May Day. As the most important festival in the proletarian calendar neared, the question also loomed of whether Polish workers and the Polish "workers' state" were once more on a collision course...
...convinced that Viet Nam is bent on dominating Southeast Asia through a tripartite Indochinese socialist union that would include Kampuchea and Laos. Peking also fears that Hanoi's actions are part of a larger Soviet scheme to threaten China's southern flank. Aside from launching their brief attack across Viet Nam's northern border in early 1979, the Chinese have been giving weapons and supplies to the remaining Khmer Rouge guerrillas in Kampuchea. Hanoi, for its part, contends that its troops were sent into Kampuchea partly to end Pol Pot's killing spree and partly...
...nothing is fixed in a schema. Constable became convinced that he must overcome the stasis that convention and idealism produce in art: his project would then be, as he put it, "to arrest the more abrupt and transient appearances of the Chiaroscuro in Nature . . . to give 'to one brief moment, caught from fleeting time' a lasting and sober existence...