Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan knows that sending his own troops to Nicaragua would be politically impossible so instead he buys rebels, mainly people who were deposed by the Sandinista revolution or in disfavor with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Like the condottieri of renaissance Italy, these Contras live very well off of American money. (The House voted to give the contras $30 million in economic aid when these rebels don't even have a bureacracy to distribute it. It's likely that a lot of this money will end up in hands of Miami merchants.) The United States, by hiring these mercenaries, fits very...
...discussion came during "Information Technology and Society," a symposium held in the Science Center. Ford Professor of Social Sciences Daniel Bell, former IBM Executive Lewis M. Branscomb, MIT Professor Michael L. Dertouzos and McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics Anthony G. Ottinger '51 participated...
...five counts of lying to the Justice Department and the FBI. The 13-year bureau veteran is accused of protecting Teamster President Jackie Presser from indictment in a payroll-padding scheme. "We were there to show him we still support him in this time of need," said Special Agent Daniel Gordon. Gordon has organized the Committee in Support of Robert Friedrick to raise funds for his co-worker, who faces up to five years in prison on each count...
...stories--16,000 articles in all --in / of a second. In two seconds, it transformed a stereoscopic image transmitted by a pair of television cameras into a detailed, two-dimensional contour map. In three minutes, it laid out the circuitry for a computer chip containing 4,000 transistors. Says Daniel Hillis, the computer's 29-year-old designer and co-founder of Thinking Machines Corp. of Cambridge, Mass.: "The conventional computer is to the Connection Machine what the bicycle is to a supersonic...
Vice-President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, who oversees the University police, dealt with Cruz's complaints. Several months later he established a student-administrator committee to consider problems of police harassment. Cruz has served on the committee. "I feel very positively and very warmly about Remy. When we first met we had a somewhat antagonistic relationship, but over a few meetings, I came to like him," Steiner says of Cruz...