Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Security Agency he obtained top-secret encryption devices to create a secure communications link to the private operators in his contra- supply operation. The report suggests that Poindexter sought to keep Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger -- and sometimes even the President -- in the dark about North's activities. This secrecy was compounded by the lack of any governmental supervision or internal review of the NSC operation. The result, says the commission, was an "unprofessional" program that failed to achieve even its own objectives: "Repeatedly, Lieut. Colonel North permitted arms to be delivered without...
...White House crisis is thrusting Howard Baker back into the headlines. This time, however, he may be the best hope to rescue a floundering President. Last Friday he accepted Ronald Reagan's offer to become White House chief of staff and injected a note of optimism into an otherwise dark week. "I expect that there will be good things out of the last two years of the Reagan Administration," said Baker. "And I intend to help...
Blessing's best previous work has been about families: War of the Roses (1985), a knock-down, drag-out marital combat, and Eleemosynary (1986), a dark comedy about how parents live through their children. Walk, by contrast, features provocative political notions: that deadly arsenals are essential to being a superpower ("Without nuclear weapons, America is Canada, only with more people") and that the prospect of Armageddon is titillating to much of mankind ("The most exciting thing in the world is to know we can destroy the world. Like that...
Like last year's film Blue Velvet, A Nite-Lite explores the seamy underside of human nature, forcing its audience to descend into the depths of perversity and look at what one character describes as "the part of the light that is dark." The play's action centers around a seemingly upstanding, All-American youth's sadistic abuse of a homeless person found asleep on his doorstep...
Although the SPA is a separate body from the council, members have been keeping the council informed about their progress. However, Undergraduate Council Chairman Richard S. Eisert '88 said he has been kept in the dark and is upset at how slowly things have been moving...