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Some Congressional aides and EducationDepartment sources believe that the change inpolicy has occurred for political reasons, as theAdministration budget proposals will appear justin time for the 1988 primaries. However, highereducation officials are more dubious...
...much, at least according to Poindexter's testimony. Yet now that most of the evidence is in, the more basic questions about responsibility have become even more troubling. The Iranian arms deals and covert contra supply operations, dubious enough on their own, were part of a larger, even more insidious pattern: the establishment of a runaway foreign policy that relied on lies and deceptions to function outside the rule of law. Could the buck for such an apparatus really have stopped with John Poindexter...
Some of the charges springing up in courts have a dubious basis in science. There is no evidence that the AIDS virus has ever been spread through saliva. In a case that involves biting or spitting, that can certainly undercut a prosecutor's attempts to prove a charge of attempted murder. A more realistic threat, however, is represented by infected prostitutes or by someone who knowingly sells or donates his or her AIDS-tainted blood. In such cases, what should...
...even if Congress would not provide U.S. funds for that purpose. When Congress passed the Boland amendment in 1984, specifically banning all agencies "involved in intelligence activities" from providing military support to the Nicaraguan rebels, Casey simply shifted his previous contra support operation to the NSC staff on the dubious grounds that the council was not covered by the proscription...
...Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., who warned of a Senate fight over Bork. At a Washington hotel Wednesday morning, White House Counsel Arthur B. Culvahouse interrogated Bork over coffee to satisfy himself that the potential nominee had no awkward club memberships, dubious financial dealings or medical problems...