Word: conflict
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Onetime White House Political Director Lyn Nofziger was indicted last week on six conflict-of-interest charges by a federal grand jury in Washington. Within months after Nofziger left the Administration in January 1982, the grand jury said, he lobbied the Administration on behalf of the National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, the Fairchild Republic Co. and the Wedtech Corp., which is accused of paying off public officials in exchange for lucrative no-bid Government contracts. Nofziger was indicted under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, which prohibits high public officials from lobbying their former agencies for one year after leaving...
...conflict in the Persian Gulf is sometimes called the tanker war, and last week's skirmishes showed why. In a nighttime raid, Iraqi warplanes bombed several Iranian tankers near Kharg Island. A day later an Iranian gunboat hurled nearly a score of rocket-propelled grenades at a U.S.-operated Liberian tanker off the Kuwaiti coast; no casualties were reported. The attacks followed a bout of muscle flexing between the U.S. and Iran. Soon after Iran tested a Chinese-made Silkworm missile at the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Navy held its own drill, launching planes from a carrier...
...Dante goes productively crazy. Is Tuck to be stuck in a rabbit? Then there will be hares everywhere: mechanical bunnies in Tuck's apartment; a project leader named Ozzie, for Oswald the Rabbit; a cameo turn by Chuck Jones, the cartoon auteur who developed Bugs Bunny. Is the plot conflict as pure as an archetypal Western shoot-out? Then one bad guy, the Cowboy (Robert Picardo), will twirl his hair dryer like a six-shooter while he sings I'm an Old Cowhand; and another, the thug-chauffeur Igoe (Vernon Wells), will shoot a man through the gloved finger...
...agencies for recognizing the problem so late. Schlesinger admitted that U.S. experts still did not fully understand how the eavesdropping system worked, but he credited unnamed U.S. technicians with inventing a new detection device that enabled them to assess the damage. They "deserve a medal," said Schlesinger, whose suggestions conflict with a Senate proposal calling for the replacement of the compromised chancery with a new structure built from scratch. Though the House has not yet voted on the proposal, many Senators remained skeptical toward the Schlesinger plan. Labeling it a "half measure," South Carolina Democrat Ernest Hollings declared, "The best...
...Presidency: The Administration's authority to take action has been hemmed in by Congress as well as special interests and the media, cramping opportunities for creative national leadership. -- A built-in constitutional conflict over the power to make war has flared into open discord between Capitol Hill and the White House...