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...Manila, Aquino was feisty, sarcastic and uncommonly firm. Said the President: "The question you all really want to ask is Can she hack it? Isn't she weak?" She proceeded to argue that she was strong. "Henceforth, I shall rule directly as President," said Aquino. "To the ad hoc committees and commissions created to inform me on their special areas, I add one more: an action committee of one member...
...protesting the status of women in the church at the Vatican embassy in Washington. The gay Catholic group Dignity plans a vigil in Detroit to pray for the Pope's enlightenment on lesbian and gay rights issues. In Los Angeles, feminist, homosexual and atheist groups have formed an ad hoc alliance to stage a vigil outside the parish house of St. Vibiana's Cathedral, where the Pope will be staying, in hopes that their chanting will keep him awake all night...
Nonetheless, the Army's top command -- particularly Chief of Staff General Edward Meyer and Vice Chief General John Vessey -- had become committed to secret operations. When the Reagan Administration took office, the generals made the new ad hoc groups permanent. In early 1981 Colonel James Longhofer, who had worked on Honey Badger, was assigned to head an expanded office of special operations to oversee various types of unconventional missions. One of its field units was Seaspray, jointly commanded by the Army and the CIA, which took over the special helicopters developed for the Iran rescue mission. The Pentagon dutifully briefed...
...release of the dolphins was the work of the Oceanic Research Communication Alliance, a ragtag team of dolphin lovers and scientists. Most previous attempts to release captive dolphins have been ad hoc or ill conceived. In 1977, for example, animal liberationists "freed" two dolphins from a tank in Hawaii. Hours later one of them was briefly spotted foundering on a reef, badly lacerated. Even so, scientists and conservationists are - increasingly interested in readapting captive or injured sea animals to the wilds. Last month the New England Aquarium, with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, organized a successful attempt...
...importunate foreign callers discover a much weightier Paris Club: a discreet group of officials from 16 industrialized countries who meet regularly to ponder overdue Third World loans owed to their respective governments. The club was started in 1954, when Argentina, faced with a liquidity squeeze, called for an ad hoc meeting in Paris with all of its creditor governments. Since then, the group has evolved into one of the financial world's most important "non-institutions," as one representative called it. The club has no official charter, no staff of its own or even a permanent headquarters. It works...