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...serious candidate, and the business community rallied around the chairman because of his record as an inflation fighter. Finally on June 18 the President interrupted a radio address with what he called a news flash: "Give me the city desk. I've got a story that'll crack this town wide open! . . . I have asked Chairman Paul Volcker to accept reappointment...
...investigation was less interested in finding the source of the disinformation than in muzzling him. Weinberger stoutly denied any connection with the investigation. "What a cheap shot," said a Weinberger aide. Federal officials said the probe stemmed from a stepped-up effort by the State Department to crack down on disinformation. After all the hubbub, the source of the transcript printed by As Safir remains a mystery...
...past five years, you have been having a difficult time getting the U.S. Congress to approve increasing amounts of military aid for your country. The Congressmen are worried about human rights excesses and the actions of rightist death squads in particular. You begin to think that maybe you should crack down on the death squads in order for aid to continue, particularly when the U.S. ambassador. Thomas R. Pickering, publicly criticizes the recent increase in death squad killings. After all, President Reagan has been your most effective advocate for dealing with Congress, so when one of his appointees takes...
...years, weapons makers have often charged the Navy-and the Army and the Air Force-exorbitant prices for even the simplest of spare parts. But goaded by horror stories in the press, the military has begun to crack down. The latest list of examples was announced last week by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman...
...group ordered the pilot to fly to Turkey. Instead, the captain alerted ground control and flew in circles around the airport at Tbilisi before finally touching down there. Throughout the afternoon and night, the plane sat on the tarmac while the hijackers demanded that it be refueled. Meanwhile, a crack antiterrorist squad was brought in from Moscow. On the following morning, the security forces stormed the plane and the hijackers, reportedly the children of prominent Georgian officials, eventually surrendered. By the time the smoke had cleared, a crew member, a flight mechanic, an air hostess, at least three...