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...President's presentation did not dispel the key issue of whether or not he had shown good judgment. Too many questions remained: 1) Why did he not do more to get Billy to break his Libya connection? 2) If Billy then persisted, why did the President not simply disavow his brother's connection with Libya? 3) At a time when he knew that Billy's work for Libya was under investigation by the Justice Department, why did he use Billy as a back-channel route to try to get Libya to lean on Iran to free...
...able to isolate the inefficiency, and to keep his pledge, he might purge valuable social programs. His stands on abortion and the equal rights amendment smack of regress--a renewal of some of the less fortuitous features of the "American compact." His palatable personality alone is not sufficient to dispel legitimate fears about his warped social priorities...
Investigators combed the site of the shooting for evidence and interviewed more than 400 people nationwide. They turned up no clues, but they did manage virtually to dispel some theories. One was that Jordan's attractive blond companion, Martha Coleman, 36, a longtime civil rights worker in Fort Wayne, was in any way involved in the attack. She had just driven him from her home to the motel when he was shot. After intensively questioning Coleman, her four former husbands and several male acquaintances, investigators found no evidence linking them with the shooting...
...American Rep actors in their flight from traditional-conversational exchange, alternating with precise control between an entirely non-verbal, vacuous moan and a galloping torrent of words tripping over each other in their eagerness to overwhelm the listener. He shouts "I'm not guilty" like an incantation to dispel the ills the world flings at him; his colleagues ponder their response to the supposed inspector-general's arrival with the cacophonous murmur of an elderly Orthodox Jewish congregation praying at different speeds. Richard Grusin's nasal, rotund Director of Welfare Institutions and Eric Elice's contortionist Superintendent of Schools, especially...
...that minority students are not as intellectually competent, Cepeda said, but that they "are conditioned to think that they're not as good." Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation and a committee member, said he hopes the report will help dispel such myths. "The fact that some minority students perceive themselves as less than the best is not encouraging and not true," he added...