Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Would that Klass had lavished a little more artistic pretension on her fiction. Written at different times while Klass was a graduate student in zoology, doing field work in Central America, living in Rome and attending medical school, these stories document in theme--rather than form--a disenchantment with sameness. The thematic concerns are all the same. The stories all speak of restless students who are usually also relentless travelers. You get the feeling there are only a few real characters, chopped up and shooed into all the stories...
...newspaper's famed Watergate sleuth, Bob Woodward, unearthed a damning document to back up the charge: a memo from National Security Adviser John Poindexter to President Reagan. In it Poindexter outlined a plan that "combines real and illusionary events -- through a disinformation program -- with the basic goal of making Gaddafi think that there is a high degree of internal opposition to him within Libya, that his key trusted aides are disloyal, that the U.S. is about to move against him militarily." According to the Post, this disinformation policy was approved on Aug. 14 at a meeting of the National Security...
...wrote during her six-month visit to the West (Alone Together; 272 pages; $17.95). In it she recounts the fight that she and her husband waged to get her to the U.S. for medical treatment. She also confirms that Andrei Sakharov's memoirs, repeatedly stolen and repeatedly reconstructed, a document certain to be of surpassing interest, have somehow survived. "(His) book will come," says Bonner. "It already exists." And it is in the West...
...some reason the prosecutor attached particular importance to my statement that we have two kinds of money. Knowing that this charge would figure in the trial, I brought two rubles, an ordinary one and a certificate. I also had a document confirming that Andrei received certificates for the publication of scientific articles abroad...
...took advantage of his confusion to break free. "But Rutger," I pleaded, "the celebration is in honor of the Constitution, the document that guarantees our freedom...