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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This will be in sharp contrast to Casey, who resented having to testify on Capitol Hill and was notorious for his mumblings and evasions. An unpublished Intelligence Committee draft on Iran found that Casey was "less than candid" in his testimony just before his hospitalization. Casey's penchant for hiding clandestine operations also led to clashes with Congress. The 1984 mining of Nicaraguan harbors, for instance, was a foreign relations disaster that spurred the legislators to cut off aid to the contras...
...School encourages students to seek a broad liberal arts education, said David Smith, vice-dean of the Harvard Law School, who recommended that future lawyers should watch "Hill Street Blues...
...White House the issue may be whether the Administration's latest package will prevail in the face of rising congressional impatience. Outside political circles, however, a number of economic experts have another concern: that in its commendable efforts to temper protectionism on Capitol Hill, the Administration is being forced to strike worrisome compromises with some of its free-trade principles...
Since 1982 the Administration has negotiated no fewer than 18 agreements with steel-producing countries that limit exports to the U.S. market. Last year, as the trade hue and cry rose once again on Capitol Hill, the Administration pressured Japan and Taiwan into limiting their exports of machine tools to the U.S. for five years. When West Germany and Switzerland refused to go along with such "voluntary" restraints, Washington set quotas that rolled back their exports to levels set in 1981 and 1985. Also in 1986, the Administration negotiated separate agreements with Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea that...
Confronted with Democratic majorities in Congress and the still unresolved Iran scandal, the President resorts to familiar themes from his glory days. -- Capitol Hill' s new Democratic leaders offer a homespun rebuttal. -- A Senate investigation uncovers "real disarray" in the White House over Iran. -- Small private groups are finding creative solutions to the nation' s housing crisis...