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...This action is of utmost importance, not just to the department, but to the White House, and the NSC so that IBC, which finds itself temporarily in dire financial straits, may have funds in days ahead to intensify its efforts...on behalf of the president's Easter peace proposal for Nicaragua...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Govt. Bailed Out Contra Firm | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

...also making boxer shorts with special condom pockets, while Bertelsen, wary of a "campaign about AIDS," worries about her "going too far." That, of course, is the compass point at which Hamnett is perpetually fixed. She has, indeed, come up with a new T shirt for these dire days (frankie says use condoms), but confesses that she did have to compromise a bit. "I wanted to do the pope says use condoms," she says. "But it is libelous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Been There, Seen That, Done That | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...said that the club's connections with the university were few and he said that "breaking these ties will not have dire consequences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Steps Back Into Frank Case | 3/14/1987 | See Source »

Eisert added, however, that the deans were concerned about who would attend the concert. "They feel the best thing is to open the concert first to undergraduates, but they understood that if there's dire financial need we can consider restricted sales to other students at specified colleges," he said...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: College Officials Approve Concert by Elvis Costello | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

Despite these dire projections, the Panama Canal Commission has reacted coolly. Says David Baerg, the group's environmental and energy-control officer: "We are not in a crisis situation, where things have to be changed immediately." Heckadon disagrees. He has called for the formation of a body like the Tennessee Valley Authority to take charge of the watershed and begin enforcing conservation of the remaining rain forest. "If we don't start acting now," he says, "in 15 years or so we might start having problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Trouble Ahead for the Canal? | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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