Word: choses
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Lying to Congress. McFarlane, North and Poindexter have admitted that they chose to mislead Congress in letters and statements about their activities in support of the contras. Although North was not under oath when he gave false testimony, all three men could be charged with making false statements to a Government agency...
Gorbachev had in fact prepared eleven draft decrees along those lines, but chose not to put them to a vote at the plenum. Some Western analysts took this as a sign that he had yet to overcome resistance from conservatives among the Central Committee's 307 members, 60% of whom are holdovers from the Brezhnev era. Gorbachev is widely expected to seek a purge of such foot draggers at a national party conference that he has scheduled for June 1988. Nonetheless, the plenum left little doubt about his political strength, which was underscored by the naming of three...
Poindexter graduated in 1958 first in his class academically and was chosen brigade commander, signifying that he rated first in leadership ability as well, an extremely rare double honor. After a year at sea, he was selected for a scholarship program of advanced study in science. He chose nuclear physics at Caltech, even though he had taken only a single physics course at Annapolis. "The Navy's chief science adviser told me to scale back, saying, 'You'll never make it,' " Poindexter said in an interview with TIME last year. "But I thought I was very good, and nothing...
...nonstop without refueling, was not at Le Bourget. Rutan and Yeager could not raise enough money to bring the aircraft along. A plan to fly Voyager to Paris on an Air Force cargo plane was rejected by a bureaucrat labeled a "pinhead" by an industry journal. What the U.S. chose to display instead was the B-1B bomber, a dark and menacing $285 million war machine. The B-1B, designed to travel to its target through hostile combat environments, demonstrated only one flaw: its engines refused to start when the aircraft was scheduled to leave Le Bourget. A special power...
...this slight distance runner chose to make his name at Annapolis was brutally elemental: boxing. Though he lacked the natural tools to excel, he worked harder than anyone else. In his third year, North fought his way into the academy's middleweight championship. At 147 lbs., he was scheduled to meet James Webb, now Secretary of the Navy. Webb was the favorite, a polished puncher; North the underdog, all blood and guts. In front of 1,500 screaming midshipmen, North won the three-round fight in a close decision. "Ollie was a Friday-night fighter," recalls his coach, Emerson Smith...