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...received the information--which included the students' names, Social Security numbers, financial aid given and tuition paid out--as part of an agency crackdown on students who are not paying income tax on their...
...crackdown stems from a 1986 change in the tax law that makes all scholarship money applied to room, board, travel or personal expenses taxable...
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According to Admiral John Poindexter, the military assistant to the National Security Adviser when martial law was declared in Poland, Reagan was convinced that the communists had made a huge miscalculation: after allowing Solidarity to operate openly for 16 months before the crackdown, the Polish government would only alienate its countrymen by attempting to cripple the labor movement and, most important, would bring the powerful church into direct conflict with the Polish regime. "I didn't think that this ((the decision to impose martial law and crush Solidarity)) could stand, because of the history of Poland and the religious aspect...
...outcome is not always so positive. Although State Department insiders tell how spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler dragged Baker in to watch CNN footage of China's crackdown against protesters in Tiananmen Square, the only measurable political effect was to distance Baker a tad from the Chinese leadership. Says a senior official, discussing the bloodshed's being seen by the American people on CNN: "It demanded a solution we couldn't provide. We were powerless to make it stop...