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...news conference thoroughly dominated by questions surrounding the long-secret Iranian arms shipments, the president said he had made the right decision despite the furor that it provoked. "I don't think a mistake has been made," he said...
...line conservatives who crave adventure and seem to generate controversy. Howard Teicher, 35, a respected expert on the Middle East, recently emerged as a source of a Washington disinformation campaign designed to suggest, among other things, that the U.S. was planning military moves against Libya. The Administration caused a furor last month when it admitted that the reports were false...
...Amid the furor, Yamani last week telephoned a close friend in Geneva, where OPEC meets and the former oil minister keeps an apartment. "What's there to say," Yamani remarked. "It's the King's decision, and that's life." He added that he would "be around" when the OPEC ministers reconvene in Geneva early in December. Yamani's friend was philosophical: "Here's one man who won't have to worry about keeping himself busy," he said. "Every headhunter ) in Big Oil must be after him." To be sure. Big Oil and Mr. Oil know each other well...
...news of the high-level hoax stirred a furor in Washington last week, the Reagan Administration denied that it had orchestrated a campaign to mislead the public. "We didn't tell any lies," said the President, although he admitted "there are memos back and forth . . . I can't deny that." A quick report from the Senate Intelligence Committee seemed to support Reagan's disavowal. Whether or not some Government officials leaked false information, explained a member of the committee's staff, there was no deliberate policy behind...
...Food and Drug Administration approved the process for harvested wheat and potatoes more than 20 years ago; dried spices and slaughtered pork were added to the list in the 1980s. Last April the agency gave the go-ahead for irradiating fruits and vegetables, and a furor erupted. Despite the FDA's consent, the process until now has been used mainly to preserve herbs and spices. But last week gamma ray-treated fruit made its first U.S. appearance when Laurenzo's Farmer's Market in North Miami Beach began offering irradiated Puerto Rican mangoes. The FDA is now considering whether...