Word: colonics
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Rafael Hernandez-Colon, a member of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) will deliver a public address at Harvard's Carpenter Center on March 4, immediately after receiving a Harvard Foundation citation honoring his "outstanding contributions to governmental leadership and international cooperation," according to the Foundation...
...hours of testimony, McFarlane strongly reiterated that Reagan had authorized the 1985 shipments -- at a meeting, ironically, in Bethesda Hospital, where the President was recuperating from his colon-cancer operation. McFarlane quoted the President as saying, "I want to get the hostages out. If the Israelis say we can do it, let's try." McFarlane added that Regan (who McFarlane believes is out to get him) was at the meeting...
...Administration officials more striking than in the testimonies of McFarlane and Regan. Their disagreements begin with the first time McFarlane mentioned to the President the subject of arms sales to Iran. The then National Security Adviser visited Reagan at Bethesda Naval Hospital shortly after the President underwent surgery for colon cancer in July 1985. According to Regan, the President questioned the credentials of Ghorbanifar, the contact with Iran. Says the Senate report: "Regan testified that McFarlane defended Ghorbanifar on the basis of Israeli assurances, and the President authorized McFarlane to explore the channel...
...Rafael Hernandez Colon has said tense labor-management relations may have been a motive for the fire, but he has not blamed the Teamsters union--which had planned a strike for midnight New Year's Eve--or hotel management or non-Teamster employees...
...sprinkler system; it is not required under local law. Puerto Rico is hardly alone in its failure to insist on the devices. In the U.S., guidelines vary greatly from city to city; Nevada, Florida and Massachusetts are the only states that make installation in all hotels mandatory. Governor Hernandez Colon has now promised to seek a law directing the island's hotels to install sprinklers...