Word: excepts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Once it became clear that the Marines were no longer in Lebanon to facilitate a withdrawal, and once it became clear that the Lebanese government of President Amin Gemayel was far from consolidating its power beyond Beirut, there seemed to be no mission for the troops except as a symbolic presence. George Ball, who was Under Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson, expresses the dilemma that such a situation creates: "God knows we might have learned from our tragic Viet Nam fiasco that, as a great power, we should deploy our troops only where they are vitally needed...
...fact, the body will cease to exist at all on Nov. 29 unless some kind of renewal legislation is passed. On the House side, the Democratic majority passed a bill that would not only keep the commission alive but prevent the President from removing its members for any cause except malfeasance or neglect of duty. In the Senate, the G.O.P. majority began leaning toward a compromise that would expand the commission to eight members, keeping the present six and seating two of Reagan's nominees. Negotiations between even the Senate and the White House broke down, however, and Reagan...
...every now and then without apparent connection to either the narrative or any grander scheme. He speculates that all FBI agents might not use electric razors and cologne because one-eighth of them are accountants. We also learn that the U.S. has more prisoners per country than any country except the Soviet Union and South Africa and then Kunen goes right along writing about...what...
...years, raise hell in their neighborhood, and then blow out of town in Dad's car with a B.A. stashed in the trunk. Snots, they called us. In my four years at Tufts. I did not break down these barriers. Relations with the neighbors were bad, except for when either of us got drunk, and then they were very...
Contrary to what President Derek Bok asserts, the Nuclear Free Cambridge Act would not limit arms control research. Nor would it limit any other research except that directed towards development of nuclear weapons. This is clearly stated in Sec. 6 "exclusions". "Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit or regulate the following... 3) basic research, the primary purpose of which is not to work towards the development of nuclear weapons...