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...move to defer or cancel delivery of the five AWACS aircraft and eight support tanker planes that Riyadh has had on order since 1981. That move may fail, but probably only after another ugly, drawn- out fight that will advance U.S. interests in the Middle East not one iota...
...military aid to build private nest eggs. While Solarz has hinted strongly at the possibility, he has failed so far to produce evidence of wrongdoing. "Solarz has devoted 100 hours to the issue," acting Foreign Minister Pacifico Castro said last week in Washington, "and has not found a single iota of evidence that would stand the test of judicial process...
Until last week no Mengele had publicly expressed an iota of remorse for the doctor's activities or cooperated with the West German inquiry. The family's aloofness and secrecy had convinced some of the frustrated West German investigators that the clan bore no sense of shame or sorrow for Josef's wartime crimes. The lack of cooperation was a major drawback for the probers, since West German law does not require family members to aid in any investigation of their kin, no matter how distant the relationship...
...names Bat. Iroquois, Kex, and Iota mean little to today's Harvard students, but once they were prominent fixtures of social life...
...that if U.S. troops stayed in Beirut long enough, some would die? The responsibility for their deaths belongs as much to those who sent them to Lebanon as to their murderers in Beirut. Our boys did not die for their country; neither have their deaths made the world one iota safer for democracy. They died to satisfy the machismo of a government ignorant of the lessons of history and apathetic to the welfare of its citizens...