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...defense argues in one of these motions that the indictments are "vague" and fail to inform the defendants of what they allegedly did wrong. Another motion says that it would be against the interests of the state to proscribe the type of practice for which the investigative team was indicted...
...State Department directed U.S. Ambassador Frank Carlucci to raise these concerns with President Francisco da Costa Gomes and inform him that the leftward tilt was inimical to U.S. and NATO interests. Five other NATO countries officially voiced similar complaints. The Administration was consulting its European allies about means of imposing a kind of quarantine within the alliance. As Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger put it, "It will have to take some symbolic form ? making them outcasts without casting them out." Explained another official: "We would deny access to classified documents that circulate in the alliance and disinvite them...
...Post and other organizations, Colby reportedly stressed that the sub affair was not yet over, that the CIA would try again this summer to raise the ship (the CIA brought only part of it to the surface last summer). By reporting the story, Colby said, news organizations would inform the Soviet Union about the salvage operation, and thus prevent its success...
Still, that generation has long since passed in review. By now, Orwell's perceptions have been duly noted, even by the obtuse. The world no longer needs English journalists to inform it of the obscenities of the Stalin years; the news comes out of Russia itself. The dangers of secrecy and invasions of privacy are piously trumpeted even in Congress. By now, Orwell should be no more than a footnote to a bad time. Instead, he is more readable and more germane than the writers who once overshadowed...
...Time"--are so readily referred to simple ocular evidence. Both McWhirters were unsuccessful Conservative candidates for Parliment in 1964, and Norris is particularly opposed to confiscatory income taxes ("Did I say confiscatory? 106 per cent! That's beyond confiscation!") Did the brothers' social and political background help inform their eloquent list of the perquisites available to U.S. Senators, the highest paid legislators in the world? And in other cases, such influences may have been praiseworthy effects. If a pub debate about "Greatest Mass Killings" turned to the Guinness Book, its participants would learn that a Soviet radio station--source normally...