Word: documentable
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...memo in which North urged the sinking or pirating of a Nicaraguan ship carrying arms to the Sandinistas became a bland suggestion that its cargo merely be publicized. Removed from another document was a reference to dunning "current donors" for "another $25-30 million" for contra "munitions" at a time when Congress did not know that Saudi Arabia was giving such military support. A paper that urged National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane to brief President Reagan on how the "delivery of lethal supplies" to the contras would continue despite a congressional ban emerged from Hall's racing typewriter with...
...that their country was finally one. Back in 1982, after 115 years of British stewardship, Canada's constitution had been given over to Ottawa's direct control. But the French-speaking province of Quebec refused to sign the charter, charging that then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was using the document to dilute French Canada. In April of this year, Mulroney and the provinces hammered out a delicate agreement recognizing Quebec as a "distinct society" and permitting it a larger degree of autonomy. Yet some premiers soon had qualms over the favors granted French Canadians and forced Mulroney into last week...
...Founding Fathers "the people" ultimately are sovereign. Elected officials rule at their pleasure and on their behalf. It was correctly assumed that the people would play a greater, if less explicit role in the governing of their lives than any of the three branches of government that magnificent document created. It was that obligation Americans neglected after they twice elected Ronald Reagan to the presidency. If any good is to come out of the whole Reagan-Iran-contra mess, it will be if individual Americans rediscover and reclaim that duty to themselves and to each other...
...Vatican, too, raised a storm last March when it issued a document calling for legal restraints on medical manipulation of human birth, including in vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood and termination of flawed fetuses. Moral traditionalists of all faiths cheered. Biomedical science, they claimed, must not intrude on natural life processes. But many liberals sided with Michigan Lawyer Noel Keane, a pioneer in arranging surrogate agreements, who reportedly declared, "I think the church is a little out of touch with reality." The document has prompted serious debate, but so far it has moved the country no closer to a consensus...
...rely on. Nowadays the shop has even become a stop on the tour-bus routes out of Tucson. Her customers aren't the sort whose taste runs to Zane Grey -- no, they are more likely looking to flesh out a study of, say, Texas John Slaughter with a document first published when the century was young. Winifred either has it, will find it or will spin out of control trying. Such work kept her pushing on during her toughest trial, the death of her husband four years...