Word: confirms
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...Soviet offer, besides being a personal vindication for Baryshnikov, helps confirm indications that dozens of other prominent Soviet-born dancers, artists, writers and filmmakers who reside in the West may be permitted to return to their native land. "If you had asked me just six months ago whether this was possible, I would have said no," said Dusko Doder, the author of a new book on the U.S.S.R. called Shadows and Whispers. Until recently all defectors were stripped of their citizenship, and their names were banished from public records...
...many observers who have battled the B-1B for over a decade, current problems merely confirm long-held doubts. Says Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, the incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "For most of the aircraft's useful life, it will not be able to penetrate (Soviet airspace) and will be a standoff carrier of cruise missiles and conventional bombs." The U.S., concludes Nunn, "could have built that kind of system much cheaper than we have built...
Dean of Academics Albert Carnesale yesterday "would not confirm or deny" who was being considered for the position. But he said that the school was looking for a new IOP director to replace Jonathan Moore, who left last year...
Russell said he was unable to confirm the existence of such a memo and is therefore unable to say whether Meese subsequently has become aware of it. Russell said he would check on that point...
...spokesman was not immediately available for comment today, but according to the Daily News, George Lauder of the CIA on Tuesday declined to confirm or deny its existence...