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...Justice Department, without a federal court order. The revised Section 6103 was designed to prevent Executive Branch officials from obtaining tax information on political enemies, Richard Nixon- style. But critics maintain that the reform has turned the IRS, which is possibly the Government's most feared civilian bureaucracy, into an agency that answers...
Army officers say they are demoralized by political mishandling of military affairs and by worries of eventual weapons shortages as Moscow pressures Mengistu to settle the civil war. Much of the civilian population would also like to see their leader deposed. People were particularly angered when Mengistu ordered the forced conscription of 100,000 boys, some as young...
...military expenditures in order to deal with domestic needs. Taken alone, this evidence could compel you to throw up your hands, say Gorbachev isn't serious and walk away. But it is possible that Gorbachev has simply changed so many variables already, like retiring the old marshals and permitting civilian think tanks to comment on military strategy, that production is an area he simply hasn't got around...
...said that the board's schedule made it unlikely that it would be able to discuss the case before students leave for the summer. Several of the nine civilian witnesses with whom Golon has spoken live out of state, he said...
...rebels quickly shut down the airport and overran a government garrison at Samarkhel, south of Jalalabad. But their frontal attacks on the city were repulsed. The fighting now consists mostly of duels between government artillery and rebel rockets that have led only to horrendous civilian casualties...