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The reporter was on target. But rather than accept responsibility for the Administration's initially conciliatory policy toward Baghdad, Baker attempted an unseemly dodge. "You want me to say those instructions were sent specifically by me on my specific orders," said Baker. "There are probably 312,000 cables or so...
In late November 1989, American intelligence reported that the Soviet freighter Vladimir Ilyich, bound for Nicaragua, had loaded a cargo of four Mi- 17 Hip helicopters at Port Leningrad. The 38 Hips previously shipped to the Sandinistas had been used to devastating effect in the war against the contra rebels...
Moving backward down the carpeted corridor, a squad of television cameramen scythed through onlookers who were craning their necks for a better look. Flanking the cameras and electric cables came the men with microphones and blazing lights. In the middle of it all strode the politician they were focusing on...
Among the more ominous environmental threats is the possibility of accidents at the two dozen Soviet-built nuclear plants in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Bulgaria and Hungary. Last January the East German government acknowledged that in late 1975 a network of cables caught fire at its Greifswald complex on the Baltic...
By week's end the hostage case was back in the shadows. Something was moving, but it was not on paper and not in the diplomatic cables and not visibly near the top of George Bush's agenda. Bush plays this dreadful game for the wasting lives of six Americans...