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More anger greeted State Department representatives when they appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to support a sudden new request for security funds at U.S. embassies around the world. Democratic Congressmen accused the Administration of belatedly seeking the money as an attempt to shift blame for the lax security in Beirut to Congress. They were upset too by Under Secretary of State Ronald Spiers' contention that the $366 million sought by the department was not really needed and that $110 million was all that could be spent this year. Committee Chairman Dante Fascell, a Florida Democrat, called this...
Security procedures were so lax that the terrorist van was already far past local Phalangist militiamen before they realized something was wrong and started to shoot. Only the chance presence of the British ambassador and his bodyguards, who shot the driver before he could enter the building's garage, saved the embassy from total destruction...
...Lax safety standards have resulted in a series of diseases among high-tech workers, including skin-related problems, respiratory ailments and cancer. High tech industries are believed to have an illness rate three times as high as the average industry...
...fact that although Updike divides his characters quite clearly into two camps, he does not allow their fates to follow from their differences in character. The reader feels the tension between Updike's near-absolute confidence of judgment, made manifest in sharp epigrams and character assessment, and the lax, amorphous nature of his characters' daily lives. One longs atavistically for a dramatic event to produce and ultimately resolve the conflict...
...from political action committees (PACs). Mondale last week promised to establish a $400,000 escrow account to repay the PACs. It is almost inconceivable that the convention will rule that the delegates should be taken away from Mondale. But Democrats, who want to portray the Reagan Administration as ethically lax, are not eager for a nominee with a small "sleaze factor" of his own. Also disquieting was the revelation last week that Mondale gets $10,000 a month from a Chicago-based law firm that he joined...