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...pass. Archaeological sites are as diverse as the people who inhabited them or the diggers who rescue them, and the romance of the profession or the site rarely meets public expectations. The demise of the ICA at Harvard--and the PAL at Brown--links them with the ebb and flow of the sites they studied, all of which were once hives of activity, now dormant. No doubt, in a field that preys upon itself, some future doctoral candidate will write her or his discretion on "the rise and fall of New England's Ivy League contract archaeology labs...
...ADMINISTRATION," complained Representative Dave McCurdy (D-Okla.) recently of President Reagan's Nicaragua policy, "has been disingenuous in maintaining that the sole purpose of its covert assistance is to halt the flow of weapons...
Ironically, our friends in Nicaragua have failed completely to accomplish their alleged aim of interdicting arms shipments. Noted the Committee report, "In 18 months, the committee has not seen any diminishment in arms flow to the Salvadoran guerrillas." Not that the insurgents have been idle. They have repeatedly battled Nicaraguan troops on and within the borders of Nicaragua, and have attacked, according to the report, "targets unrelated to arms interdiction...
...threat to the Persian Gulf area. Drawn from old Egyptian stockpiles (and, ironically, manufactured by the Soviets), the weapons are shipped to Pakistan by air and sea, then trucked to the Afghanistan border. U.S. officials said that the Pakistanis have been under pressure from Moscow to stanch the arms flow, but continue to look the other way in return for a six-year, $3.2 billion aid package from Washington...
What do they look for? First, for the flow of the handwriting. Writing in which each letter of the alphabet is too carefully consistent over too many lines or over different periods of time is a telltale sign of forgery. In writing naturally and quickly, people tend to vary the formation of most characters ever so slightly, often subconsciously. Even their writing posture or how they feel about what they are writing can create minute variations. "Your signature on a $50,000 mortgage, is a little more careful than on a $10 check," notes FBI Special Agent James Lile...