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Former Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe is a fervent anti-Communist who reportedly practices his English by studying videotapes of President Reagan's speeches. The Administration had hoped it could persuade Doe, who seized power five years ago, to emulate the U.S. in other ways as well. Officials in Washington threatened to withhold U.S. aid if he did not hold free and fair elections. Liberia, founded 138 years ago by freed U.S. slaves, receives some $85 million a year from...
...advocates, these are desperate times. Congress has shown that it cannot cut the deficit without some radical new constraints on the way it writes budgets. The danger lies less in the rationale behind the plan than in the haste with which it was conceived. Even some of its most fervent public supporters privately hope that given the extra few days of deliberations, refinements can be added in the House-Senate conference committee to make the measure more flexible...
Being a pseudonym and all, Dewitt has no scruples about admitting his fervent love for the teen sex flick (TSF). Sex is better than violence, of course, and the glut of films featuring pasty-faced male adolescents getting their weenies in an uproar over outrageously mature-looking 15-year-old femmes fatales has left Dewitt standing in line with any number of pre-pubescent townies to slap down a fiver for this particular pleasure...
...unearthed fresh details of government complicity, but it was not until Le Monde printed a story in mid-August verifying the broad | outlines of the scandal that the political implications for the French government became grave. The country's most respected newspaper, Le Monde was also an early and fervent supporter of Socialist President Francois Mitterrand. Suddenly the Elysee Palace could no longer dismiss the charges as mere gossip or yellow journalism...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, in an interview with TIME, said of the congressional study, "Wrong, just plain wrong." Now one of SDI's most fervent supporters in the Administration, Weinberger said the findings assume that SDI systems would be vulnerable to saturation attacks by an aggressor, like the 1970-vintage antiballistic missile. "But," Weinberger insisted, "we're talking about a totally different strategic defense, which cannot be overwhelmed simply by the addition of more numbers...