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Deaver is the target of probes by the GAO, the Justice Department and the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. At issue is whether he illegally represented private clients on matters he dealt with as an Administration official. Deaver has asked that an independent counsel be appointed to look into the charges...
...Washington the Reagan Administration called Gorbachev's charges unfounded. Said a White House statement: "If some reports carried in the mass media were in fact inaccurate, this was an inevitable result of the extreme secrecy with which the Soviet authorities dealt with the accident in the days immediately following it. Citizens of foreign countries and their governments had a legitimate interest in knowing the facts, since their own health could be affected." While it rejected Gorbachev's proposal for a summit meeting to discuss a ban on nuclear tests, the Reagan Administration stressed that the previously agreed-upon U.S.-Soviet...
Rookie Wally Joyner, Reggie Jackson, and Ruppert Jones also had RBI singles as California dealt the Orioles only their second loss in the last 10 games...
...From a file drawer he fetched evidence from criminal cases his office has dealt with. The point was, it seemed, simple citations can lead to bigger things. One example: a bicycle obscured an auto license plate. The car was stopped, and it yielded eleven bags of a "brown mushroom substance I can't pronounce (psilocybin), although I know it's a dangerous drug," some marijuana and pills. Large cases or little, the marshal said, you have to be on your toes. Mothers used to come down to the saloons and leave their children outside on the benches until all hours...
Strictly speaking, there are no sins of omission in fiction. A novelist can leave out whatever he wishes. But having dealt with Los Alamos espionage, Smith risks breaking his illusion of authenticity by neglecting key figures. He is far more effective with Pena, racked between his heritage and his ambitions. The sergeant is a winning creation, even though he stretches belief by conducting a lot of personal business as a noncom assigned to a supersecret project: trysting with Fraulein Weiss, trying to buy a nightclub, getting into shape for a high-stakes boxing match, taking care of Indian affairs...