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Thus when it voted 88 to 2 to give the treaty the status of law, the Senate knew what it was doing: ratifying an explicit ban on the development and testing of space-based, exotic ABMs -- precisely the type of SDI system that the Reagan Administration now argues it can develop and test under its broad interpretation of the treaty. If the Administration persists in its policy, Nunn warned, it risks a "constitutional confrontation" with the Hill and a congressional "backlash" against funding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the ABM Treaty Means | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

Casparian said he thought the proposed arrest policy as currently drafted would be worthless because there are no explicit guarantees that the administration will adhere to it. As they are currently drafted, Casparian said, "The Principles and Policies really are empty promises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Searches for Judiciary System | 3/14/1987 | See Source »

...Some parts were too sexy for what was then considered to be the going rate,'" Updike said, in reference to sexually explicit scenes in the work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Updike Exhibit Begins | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...occasionally displayed an extraordinary disingenuousness. But the commission nonetheless accepted his account of how the President approved the August 1985 Israeli arms shipments to Iran and concluded that McFarlane "clearly" had Reagan's "full support" to supply those weapons to Iran, even though he may have lacked "explicit prior approval." As National Security Adviser, McFarlane "appeared caught between a President who supported the initiative and the Cabinet officers who strongly opposed it." While he made efforts to keep those officers and Reagan informed, he "was not always successful." At the same time, he tried to be protective of the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert McFARLANE | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...sexually explicit language offended many students, including Steptoe. "Mine wasn't as bad as some of the others, but most of the ones I saw were really pretty gross," she said...

Author: By John P. Stanley, | Title: Valentine's Mystery Solved at Princeton | 2/28/1987 | See Source »

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