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...latest flap began when President Reagan received the disciplinary recommendation from the CIA's inspector general. Reagan had ordered the internal investigation amid a continuing clamor over sections of the manual that advocated the "neutralization" of local Nicaraguan officials. Critics seized upon that term as a code word for assassination. Furthermore, they charged, the manual shows that the CIA is violating a 1982 congressional amendment barring it from engaging in any activity aimed at overthrowing the Sandinistas. Reagan responded with the credulity-straining explanation that the word neutralization meant nothing more than "you just say to the fellow that...
...Ferraro Flap...
...placed her in political jeopardy was not anything she did but something she said she would not do-namely, release her husband's tax returns. It was this affront to post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing, that turned the flap into a furor...
...this unforgiving apparatus was added the obligatory flap over judging, without which no gymnastics meet would be complete. Like figure skating, gymnastics is a subjective sport: performance is in the eyes of the judges beholding it. National loyalties and geopolitical considerations being what they are, the beholder can cast a blind or a jaundiced eye, or an indulgent one, depending upon where the gymnast is from. During the compulsory exercises on the balance beam, U.S. Coach Peters lodged four protests over marks given to the Americans by Rumanian Judge Julia Roterescu. But having gone 4 for 6 in the complaint...
Sheehy added that the Senator had accepted Youngbird's assurance that he had been chosen by supernatural forces to "save nature from destruction." Hart denied that Youngbird was any kind of guru and said the ceremony had been an innocuous dedication of a park. On top of that flap, Hart was quoted in the Denver Post as calling Mondale's interviews in North Oaks "something very close to pandering." His lame comment: "I don't recall the context...