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North has invoked his constitutional right not to testify because he might incriminate himself, and the congressional committees have voted to grant him limited immunity in order to compel his testimony...
...businessman who worked on both the Iran arms deal and the contra- arms network. Meanwhile, David Kimche, a former official of the Israeli Foreign Ministry who has been identified as the originator of a plan to sell U.S.-made weapons to Iran, successfully resisted an attempt by Walsh to compel him to testify before a grand jury...
While the nation has been preoccupied with the sex lives of presidential candidates, the Pentagon has been fretting about the sexual practices of the 2.7 million people with Defense Department security clearances. In January the Pentagon expanded its rules to compel service personnel, civilian workers and contract employees with clearances to divulge whether they have engaged in such sexual acts as adultery, sodomy and incest. The rules are intended to ensure that those with access to secrets are not vulnerable to blackmail...
...highborn roue who is their sequential wooer (Alan Rickman). The essence of the roue's sexual appeal is a chilly, offhand disinterest. Neither kind nor attentive nor particularly virile, he does not so much inspire devotion as command it; he does not so much arouse ardor as compel his victims to confront their suppressed sexuality. He believes all virtue is fraud, and he delights in destroying women by making them believe so too. He has only one love, the marquise, and she is less a companion than a rival. Rickman and Duncan are at once captivating and appalling. Theirs...
Inouye spoke after a closed door committee session at which lawmakers voted limited immunity from prosecution in order to compel the testimony of two witnesses. He described the two as "very minor figures" but refused to identify them...