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Catalano also confirmed that officers recovered three laptops during a search of Freeman’s residence. He could not confirm what happened to the remainder of the items stolen. HUPD’s investigation is still ongoing...
...more than a matter of bad manners and bruised egos: Bolton's pattern of intimidation, they claim, was also aimed at distorting vital intelligence. Government sources tell TIME that during President Bush's first term, Bolton frequently tried to push the CIA to produce information to conform to--and confirm--his views. "Whenever his staff sent testimony, speeches over for clearance, often it was full of stuff which was not based on anything we could find," says a retired official familiar with the intelligence-clearance process. "So the notes that would go back to him were fairly extensive, saying...
...said Michael Buerk, a correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation. After two black men were killed by police outside Cape Town, early police reports and accounts provided differing versions of how the incident started. Reporters pointedly reminded readers and viewers that the new restrictions made it difficult to confirm their stories. In Johannesburg, the Foreign Correspondents Association strongly denounced the restrictions. The F.C.A. warned that forcing the media to operate within such stringent guidelines could create "a news vacuum in which rumors and distortions, from whatever quarter, will prevail...
...claimed that Americans held hostage by the extremist Islamic Jihad in Lebanon would be executed. The next day a bundle of letters was delivered to the Associated Press office in Beirut. One was addressed to President Reagan and signed by four of the six missing Americans. That seemed to confirm that the four--A.P. Correspondent Terry Anderson; the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, a Catholic priest; Agriculturist Thomas Sutherland; and David Jacobsen, director of the American University hospital in Beirut--were still alive. Two others, Diplomat William Buckley and Librarian Peter Kilburn, are not accounted for and feared dead...
...plenty of reasons for putting their money on the line. They feel particularly buoyed by declining interest rates. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker hinted last month that the central bank will continue to apply downward pressure on rates in order to keep the economy moving. Volcker seemed to confirm that policy last week, when he stated that the Fed's open-market committee will keep a relatively loose rein on the money supply, a strategy that should keep plenty of cash available for loans to businesses and consumers...