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Copies of The Street are given free to homelesspersons who can hawk them on the streets and keepthe money. Additionally, free magazines aredistributed to area colleges and homelessshelters. Most of remaining copies are deliveredby hand to local businesses for sale, while othersare distributed by a commercial distributor...
Israel also made a shipment of 18 U.S.-made Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Iran in November 1985. The Iranians were furious because the missiles carried Israeli insignia. They demanded that the weapons be sent back to Israel. Again, the President's memory is cloudy on whether he gave an O.K. to the sale. At first he told the board he had objected, and that is why the shipment was returned. Later he said he and Regan had agreed that "they cannot remember any meeting or conversation about a Hawk shipment...
...multiagency border interdiction program would include the addition of hundreds of new personnel, the purchase of up to seven aircraft-spotting radar balloons, the use of four Hawkeye surveillance planes, the modification of four older P-3 Orion radar aircraft for border watching and the transfer of six Black Hawk helicopters to chase drug-running planes. State and local police were to receive grants from a separate $225 million fund authorized by Congress...
...raisin makers went for it, as did Kentucky Fried Chicken, Aim Toothpaste, Captain Crunch, and an insurance company. Wise choice: The commercials resulting, the highlight of this retrospective sampling from Vinton's studio, are far more memorable than the products they hawk...
...week later CIA and State Department representatives met with Iranian contacts in Geneva. The Iranians presented the Americans with a nine-point agenda that they claimed had already been approved by the National Security Council. The plan called for the sale of more TOW antitank weapons and Hawk missile parts to Iran and the release of 17 Muslim terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait in exchange for freedom for the American hostages in Lebanon...