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...reputedly uranium-rich Aozou Strip in northern Chad. While France maintains a 1,300-troop garrison in Chad and has provided some $90 million in military aid this year to its former colony, the French have resisted being drawn deeper into the conflict. Defense Minister Andre Giraud expressed "deepest regrets" over the stepped-up fighting, though he declared that France will continue to defend the Chadian capital from attack. Premier Jacques Chirac last week repeated calls for a "negotiated solution" to the war. Though France supports Chadian President Hissene Habre's claim to the Aozou Strip, the Chirac government would...
...traded for each American hostage freed. But the operation sadly - illustrates how the obsession with covert operations became self-perpetuating. Because the arms sales aroused bitter opposition even within the Government, and would never have been approved by Congress, they had to be carried out in the deepest secrecy. And there was Ollie North with a ready network of gunrunners available to smuggle the weapons and with a maze of Swiss bank accounts to receive the funds...
There has been no shortage of irony and drama in Paul Volcker's eight-year tenure as Federal Reserve chairman. During that time, the U.S. went through one of its deepest economic slumps since the Great Depression, as well as its second longest peacetime boom in modern times. Volcker shares in the blame -- and credit -- for both those cycles, but one major accomplishment was virtually all his own. He was the valiant tamer of U.S. inflation, the tightfisted money manager who stopped one of the worst price spirals in this century and made it bearable once again for Americans...
...fact, the President's own circumscribed definition of "experience" characterizes one of the University's deepest faults. Working with the homeless in Cambridge and lunching with professors certainly contribute to student development. But the University's position on educational issues, its relationship with Cambridge and its own staff, and its methods and criteria for tenuring or discharging professors also involve fundamental questions about the nature of this community that directly concern everyone...
TOSCANINI WAS an important part of the fetishization of music, Horowitz concludes, because his style, far from being suited to all types of music, cut all of it in the same, popularly appealing mold--that of the visceral music of Guiseppe Verdi, Toscanini's countryman, friend, and deepest musical love...