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...security and bring our boys home." So said Prime Minister Shimon Peres last week as he prepared for a test of strength within Israel's national unity government. Hours later Peres was triumphant, and Israel was embarked on a dramatic change of military course. By a 16-to-6 count, the Cabinet voted in favor of a unilateral, step-by-step withdrawal of an estimated 22,000 Israeli troops from southern Lebanon, with the first phase to get under way within five weeks. Other stages in the planned three-phase pullback will occur at Cabinet discretion, but the decision left...
Beyond deciding how to deal with those who disclose classified information, the Pentagon has been working on an older and more basic problem: how to screen out security risks. Increasingly, the Pentagon is turning to the lie detector for this purpose. In 1983, the last year for which a count is available, the Defense Department administered 21,000 routine polygraph checks to its employees. This year, with special congressional authorization, some 3,500 key officials who have access to highly secret information, or may be under consideration for such access, will be given additional polygraph tests. They will be specifically...
Harvard Coach Frank McLaughlin said that "there's no way we would have scrimmaged UMass-Boston if we knew it was going to count...
...UMass-Boston scrimmage is considered comparable to a game, then why shouldn't it count in the Crimson's record...
...this context the U.S. can hardly count upon its NATO allies to do "more"; they may indeed decide to do less, and U.S. pressure on them could well be counterproductive. Pressure on our defense budget will remain high. For domestic political reasons to maintain the entitlements programs also remain high...