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...vote, culminating six years of overt and covert military support for the rebels fighting the leftist Sandinista government, killed Reagan's request for $36.2 million in new aid to keep the contras alive as a fighting force through June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Votes Down Contra Aid Package | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

...embarked on one of the most extraordinary episodes of creative insubordination in the annals of diplomacy. He entered a covert and unauthorized negotiation-within-the-negotiation with his Soviet counterpart in the INF talks, Yuli Kvitsinsky. During a stroll in a forest outside Geneva, the famous "walk in the woods," they reached a tentative compromise. Back in Washington, Perle and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger led a successful campaign to repudiate the deal and reprimand Nitze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms and the Man: Paul Nitze | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...make the university an Ivory Tower hidden from the pressures of the nation and the nation a similar tower hidden from the pressures of the world. But in this dangerous international environment, we must play the game of the Soviet bloc--which has used all forms of espionage and covert action in its perpetual competition with the United States for world predominance--in order to preserve the freedoms and liberties we enjoy. To think otherwise would be foolhardy and unrealistic, something not unusual to many hiding from the real world behind ivy-covered walls...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Secrecy and Freedom | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...accepting funding from the CIA, Harvard is not risking its academic freedom through association with a secret and covert wing of government. The contract has been checked and double-checked to ensure that the University's rules--the strictest in academia--forbidding censorship and requiring the publication of all results are preserved. "The contract has no leaks," said Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck, a national authority on academic freedom and the problems of government secrecy...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Secrecy and Freedom | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...added that the CIA should not be treated anydifferently because of their covert nature...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: K-School To Limit Role of CIA Researcher | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

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