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Alfonsin credited the political opposition, labor organizations and business leaders for his victory over the mutinous officers. He was right to do so. In Argentina, contentious factions still contend, but they also band together to oppose any who would replace the uncertain stability of democracy with the certain trauma that would follow its over-throw...
...what is a prudish culture, its blatant use of sexual entrapment. The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board has issued at least three reports on the subject and personally briefed Reagan last spring on the vulnerability of the Moscow embassy. But all these initiatives died, White House aides contend, amid bureaucratic sluggishness and even outright resistance on the part of the State Department...
Weirick also was alleged to have been led to the KGB by several women he encountered while stationed at the Leningrad consulate. He left Leningrad in 1982 and was transferred to Rome, where investigators contend that he bragged to a colleague of having earned some $350,000 from the Soviets...
...have literally turned our company upside down," said Burroughs Wellcome Vice President Thomas Kennedy at a press conference last week. The company says it takes seven months to make the drug and that the high price is needed to offset development and manufacturing costs. Burroughs Wellcome officials also contend that by reducing the need for medical care, Retrovir could, despite its expense, slash the annual cost of treating an AIDS patient from an estimated...
...plan is already meeting strong resistance from the Administration, many Republican legislators and business lobbyists. Opponents contend that the Kennedy-Hawkins measure would reduce the number of low-wage jobs available, especially part-time work for teenagers. Says Labor Secretary William Brock: "We need to concentrate on how to get our kids into the work force rather than on a new way to keep them...