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WASHINGTON--President Reagan's former national security adviser, John M. Poindexter, and fired White House aide Lt Col. Oliver L. North were indicted yesterday along with two arms dealers on charges they conspired to divert Iranian arms sales profits to the Nicaraguan contras...
...working on more esoteric subjects. Professors may withhold the publication of their findings until they reach the patenting stage--as happened several times last year in the field of superconductors--even refusing to informally discuss their research with their colleagues. Consulting or using university facilities for commercial research may divert faculty time from research and teaching duties...
...days, has been captured on video showing all his Pentecostal fervor. The networks last week showed clips of him waving his arms as he spoke of curing hemorrhoids. In an interview with David Frost that aired this Sunday, Robertson defended the time he prayed on his television show to divert the course of Hurricane Gloria, adding of the storm's subsequent shift toward New York, "I think it was divine intervention." Bringing the Holy Ghost in on the cure for hemorrhoids seems, on the face of it, to disqualify the practitioner of such "solutions" from sitting with the National Security...
Ruder's proposal was opposed not only by the CFTC but by two of the SEC's five commissioners, who said that a power struggle between the agencies would only divert attention from the need to reform the markets before they tumbled again. In fact, two of the largest financial markets last week took pre- emptive steps to lessen their volatility. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which handles trading in stock-index futures, proposed new daily limits on how far the price of a futures contract should be permitted to swing, and called for greater coordination between the stock and futures...
...central fiction about the hard-cover repackaging of Answered Prayers is the presumption that it is a novel, unfinished or otherwise. Rather, it is an act of merchandising that will divert attention from A Capote Reader, a generous collection of traditional fiction and imaginative journalism that invites renewed appreciation of one of the most gifted writers of his generation. "He writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm," wrote Norman Mailer nearly 30 years ago. The early Southern stories have the delicate tinkle of glasses of iced tea; a touch sweet, perhaps, but clean and cool. "The Headless...