Word: documented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picture magazine Ogonyok and the multilanguage weekly Moscow News started printing hard-hitting stories about corrupt officials, inefficient factories and alienated youth. Ogonyok, for example, has published such long-banned writers as Vladimir Nabokov and Osip Mandelstam. Moscow News has exposed police harassment of a journalist seeking to document shoddy construction of a power plant. Just how daring the press became is illustrated by a joke making the rounds in Moscow. A pensioner calls a friend and exclaims, "Did you see that incredible article in Pravda today?" "No, tell me about it," says the friend. "Sorry," the pensioner replies...
...People should never forget to give thanks to our farsighted Founding Fathers. The document they hammered out that hot summer 200 years ago has stood firm and has had a long-lasting effect on the world. It has enabled our nation to be flexible in the wake of change while upholding the rights of each citizen...
...with our Constitution. A modern-day convention would only create chaos and destroy the subtleties, language and spirit of the 1787 document. If our elected representatives cannot resolve through legislative action issues now facing us such as the deficit, a balanced budget and government waste, then how could they possibly make a success of a constitutional convention...
Your article on the Soviet Union's constitution states that the document grants every citizen the right to a job. Such a basic right is not to be found in ours. Chalk one up for the Soviets...
...with the contra diversion. As the scandal was breaking last November, Poindexter testified, he destroyed a piece of vital evidence: a covert-action finding, drafted by the CIA and signed by the President in December 1985, that retroactively approved Israel's shipments of U.S. arms to the Iranians. The document, said the admiral, depicted the weapons transactions as a straight arms-for-hostages swap with Iran rather than a diplomatic effort to establish contacts with Iranian moderates, as the President has maintained. "I thought it was politically embarrassing," said Poindexter of the finding. "I tore...