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Meanwhile O'Brien and officials in Washington stew over the harm the disputes have on the higher education-federal relation. The audit problem has "probably been the leading cause of damaging what was heretofore a fairly cordial relationship," Goldberg flatly states...
Some industry observers warn that the money-market accounts could do the ailing S and L industry more harm than good. They fear that customers may simply roll much of the $90 billion still in 5½% passbook deposits into the new investments. That would sharply drive up the thrifts' costs without bringing them more money...
...events beforehand. He said he did not learn that the Christian militiamen had been allowed by Israeli occupation forces to enter the camps until a few hours afterward at a Cabinet meeting. He also insisted that no one in command had raised the possibility that the Phalangists would harm anyone but "terrorists." Said Begin: "Nobody conceived of the danger of acts of atrocity...
...have done incalculable harm to the interests and security of this country and to the interests and security of our friends and allies." With those words Lord Chief Justice Lane sentenced Geoffrey Arthur Prime, 44, to 35 years in prison for passing government secrets to the Soviet Union between 1968 and 1981. Prime pleaded guilty to seven counts of violating Britain's Official Secrets Act. For most of those 14 years. Prime worked as a Russian language specialist at the top-secret electronic intelligence center at Cheltenham. The facility, part of a four-nation intelligence network that includes...
...relations with Daoud were never very good. He was keen to keep open his links with the West. He did not wish to become too closely involved with us. Those of us who knew Afghanistan were convinced no harm would come of that. The Afghans would slaughter each other for generations, regardless of whether they claimed to be Communists...