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...that was taken by middlemen who disappeared). In 1981 Perot agreed to a suggestion by agents of the U.S. Customs Service that he finance a drug sting in the Caribbean. The idea was to set up a landing strip on a foreign-owned island where agents would gather information on drug-carrying flights that would be induced to put down there. Customs could not operate an undercover enterprise in a foreign country, however, without clearing it through the U.S. ambassador and the government involved, and it did not want to do that. So a Customs agent proposed that Perot build...
...Whatever you do, don't forget to sendGrandpa Bob a postcard.CrimsonDavid E. RosenFood fanatics gather in Quincy Market tosample goodies from around the globe...
...economics as the works of Karl Marx. Their common point of connection is Gaidar, who was once director of Moscow's Institute of Economic Policy and an economics editor of the party daily Pravda. Long before they had any possibility of entering the government, the group used to gather to discuss future economic models for Russia. Then, during the coup attempt, Gaidar and friends issued a public statement condemning the economic policies of the putsch leaders. It caught Yeltsin's attention...
...since come to pass, and now the Crimea is at the center of a bitter territorial row between Russia and Ukraine that threatens to destroy the fragile Commonwealth of Independent States and make enemies out of two nuclear-armed nations. In the Crimean capital of Simferopol, ethnic Russians gather daily outside the local parliament building to accuse Ukrainian leaders of disregard for their right to self-determination. In the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, 400 miles away, thousands have converged in recent weeks to protest Moscow's "imperialist" designs on the Crimea, which is part of Ukraine but has a Russian...
...says that while Rosovsky's task forceswere used primarily to gather information, many ofKnowles' committees--on ROTC, on uncapping theretirement age, on activity reporting--have beenattacking specific "problem" areas in search ofsolutions...