Word: interes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arias confronted Ortega head on, asking him if he was willing to make concessions, says Peter Hakim, staff director of the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, Inter-American Dialogue. If not, then it would be better for the leaders to go right to dinner and cut the meeting short, Arias said, according to Hakim...
Criticism is aimed primarily at Elliott Abrams, the State Department's Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs. Despite getting into trouble for misleading Congress about U.S. aid to the contras, Abrams still enjoys Shultz's support. Stubborn and often intolerant of dissent, he fought for what he saw as a worthwhile goal: ousting Noriega. But Pentagon brass, who balked at threatening Noriega with force, say Abrams gave little thought to the other possible effects of his actions. "Nobody disagrees that Noriega must go," says a senior Defense Department official. "We just think State ((meaning Abrams)) is bungling...
Defenders of congressional exemptions point out that legislators face special pressures: they often need to employ home-district personnel or friends of supporters. Stanley Brand, a former general counsel to the House, says Congress historically has not placed itself under the yoke of various laws to protect itself from inter-Government conflicts. Imagine, he says, the Justice Department using charges of job discrimination to harass unfriendly Congressmen. Besides, "the reality of going before the voters and seeking election should force Congressmen to behave," he says...
...Inter-passing: Some teams are content with one pass and a shot. Harvard, however, likes to use many passes. In the graphic below, Kate Ford (5) has just been awarded a free throw after being fouled. She passes it to Lynley Ogilvie (7) who taps it out to Tara Gustilo...
Freshman centerfielder Marcel Durand, batting in the leadoff slot for Harvard, unloaded three hits and knocked in a run. Fellow Yardling Bob Bincarousky's two-RBI single in the eighth was more than enough to inter the terrible Techies...