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...dangerous move that will carry a whole new set of economic risks. In the short run, a dollar lacking firm U.S. support could spin out of control; over the longer haul, its eroded purchasing power could reignite inflation. In an interview last week with the Wall Street Journal in which he acknowledged the new policy and sent the dollar plunging to new lows, Baker said, "I don't think we're out of the woods yet. I think markets are still fragile...
Kwitny, a Wall Street Journal reporter and author of Endless Enemies, finds the beginings of the Nugan Hand story in documents that establish the CIA's involvement with Chinese Nationist forces in the 1950s. During the war, according to official records Kwitny quotes, the CIA smuggled drugs to finance the forces of Chiang Kai-shek forces. "With the kind of people [CIA operatives] were dealing with up there, the whole economy was opium," according to John J. O'Neill, the Far East regional director of the Drug Enforcement Administration. "I have no doubt that Air America was used to transport...
...Nieman Foundation's 1938 endowment--given in memory of Lucius Nieman, founder of the Milwaukee Journal--will not fund the new fellowships. Simons said that each international fellowship costs the foundation approximately...
Some Yale students in attendance questioned Schmidt on the sincerity of his presentation given his reaction to an August Wall Street Journal article that called Yale a "gay school...
...Huntington, "Reform and Stability in a Modernizing, Multi-Eethnic Society," Politikon: South African Journal of Political Science,8 (2), Dec. 1981, pp. 8-26. Further quotes from this article are referenced by page number...