Word: john
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...boats carrying arms to Sandinista troops. The drop would also include high-powered 106-mm recoilless rifles "to be used to sink one or both of the arms carriers." The memo, from North to McFarlane, was marked "President approves." Brendan Sullivan, North's attorney, told the jury that John Poindexter, then McFarlane's deputy, wrote those words...
...Tuesday, one day after he was sworn in as "drug czar," Bennett talked * the import ban over with Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, whose department oversees the BATF. Bennett got word to White House chief of staff John Sununu about the plan. When the White House did not object, Bennett and Higgins went ahead and announced the import ban last Tuesday...
Though small towns have suffered a critical loss of business and services in recent years, their populations have been ebbing for decades. The decline began as farms started mechanizing and becoming less labor intensive. Says John Keller, a professor of regional and community planning at Kansas State: "Many of these communities peaked in 1890. This has been the longest deathbed scene in history." Many towns tried to diversify in postwar years by attracting industry, especially low-paying light-manufacturing businesses. Many of those jobs, however, were eventually lost to even lower-wage foreign suppliers, especially during...
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS: Richard Duncan, Karsten Prager, John F. Stacks...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar, John Langone, Michael D. Lemonick, Johanna McGeary, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, J.D. Reed, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...