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President Reagan pronounced that Walsh's decision "satisfies our problem, which has been . . . concern about national security." Reagan's critics claim that the President, who has praised North as a "national hero," may have let the ex-Marine off the hook without taking the politically risky step of formally pardoning him. Late last week Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell indicated that he wanted a Senate committee review of Walsh's decision. Already the judge has postponed the planned Jan. 31 start of the trial in the wake of these new developments. If the rest of Walsh's case collapses...
...personnel stationed in Britain and was unloaded at Heathrow Airport before the Pan Am plane's ill-fated takeoff for New York. But according to some West German reports, British investigators now suspect the bomb was planted by a worker at London's Heathrow Airport. British officials called the claim "pure speculation...
This draft plan would, according to a Republican insider, "let Bush stake out the high ground on the deficit issue," and at low political cost. The new President could claim to have fulfilled his campaign pledge to meet the deficit-cutting targets without new taxes, but avoid the need to identify specific programs for the budget ax. That is precisely why key Democrats like Mitchell and House Budget Committee Chairman Leon Panetta dismiss the vague outline as a political ploy. Last week even some Republican officials urged Darman and Bush to go a half-step further and list "broad proposals...
EACH of these incidents alone is forgivable, perhaps even explainable, but taken together they show a disgraceful record and a mayor who is a national embarrassment. Perhaps Barry will avoid indictment again and claim complete vindication. But even the remote possibility that all the incidents have been blown out of proportion by the media does not excuse his laziness, his indifference to propriety and his poor political appointments...
Mendes' death brought to 93 the number of people killed in land disputes this year in Brazil. Human-rights groups claim that gunmen hired by local landowners are to blame. Many victims, including lawyers, priests and union leaders like Mendes, had been resisting efforts by some landowners to turn large tracts of jungle into profitable grazing land...