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...elsewhere. But he is getting flak from members of the White House staff who have deep sympathy for Taiwan, which is pushing the U.S. to sell it such advanced military equipment as F-16/79 fighters Peking is furiously opposed. It will take all of Haig's bureaucratic and diplomatic skill to work out an equitable solution...
...extremists-one of these special-interest groups [who would] deny the balanced management of resources for the benefit of consumers and for all of America." He acknowledged that this belief might cause some Senators to fight his appointment, but declared: "If a man is not strong enough to take flak in congressional hearings, he is not strong enough to take...
...Cabinet appointees, Haig is expected to run into the most flak from Democrats, largely over his sometimes ambiguous role as White House Chief of Staff during the final embattled months of the Nixon presidency. He will also be closely questioned about his views of the world, which the New York Times thought so little known that it labeled him "vague Haig." But Reagan has always been high on Haig, and when the Democrats promised to challenge the appointment, he figured he had no alternative but to stand and fight. Said Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, an adviser to Reagan: "We felt...
...short, unshaven young men in blue jeans and olive-drab flak jackets walked up to the door of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's modest house in the Tehran suburb of Jamaran. They were immediately ushered inside. The two visitors had been mere university freshmen until a year ago. On Nov. 4, 1979, they joined an estimated 500 other militants in seizing and occupying the U.S. embassy. Now, while their comrades downtown were preparing to celebrate the first anniversary of the siege, the two young men were reporting to Khomeini to elicit his "guidance" about the vote by the Majlis...
Because the sinsemilla plants need a lot of sunshine, most large plots can be spotted from the air by experienced agents, who summon raiding parties armed with search warrants, flak jackets and chain saws. They cut down and truck the stalks to incinerators. The cultivators who are caught usually get off with probation, though the maximum penalty is a $5,000 fine and ten years in prison...