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Lawyers call threats by defense attorneys to disclose classified information "graymail." To laymen, it looks suspiciously close to blackmail since it forces the prosecution to make a choice: let the secrets be revealed or drop the relevant charges. North has insisted that more than 3,500 classified documents are vital to his defense. Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh wants to use about 400 secret papers, from which a special interagency group made numerous deletions to protect national security. North's lawyers have objected to nearly all these exclusions. If the judge decides the deleted information is necessary for North's defense...
...plans for world nuclear disarmament, has more on his mind these days than slapping his name on another pile of bricks and mortar, even if the pile of bricks is in Mother Russia. He wants to talk one superpower to another. "I'm not looking to do anything but let him know that these two great countries can and should get along together...
...wish to take Gorbachev on a helicopter tour and show off the American dream by counting swimming pools in the backyards of factory workers. Gorbachev will have to settle for the Trump version of that dream. "I'm a representative of the American people," says Trump. "I want to let him know the American people are pretty good people...
...decision to take control of the project was forced on Gray and her neighbors, she says. Plumbing was broken and heating was, at best, intermittent. So in 1981, deciding "things couldn't get much worse and we had to do something," Gray petitioned the District government to let residents take control. The mayor eventually agreed, and in January 1982 Gray's tenant management corporation began collecting rents, making repairs and running things for itself. What the corporation got was a run-down facility with bursting pipes, flooding basements and no one trained in physical-plant management. "It was crisis that...
Some of the changes seem laughably overdue. One daytime soap producer, observing that network censors no longer monitor his show regularly, says he is more likely to approve language that was once prohibited: "It used to be that you couldn't say, 'My God!' I let it go by now. You could say 'hell,' but you couldn't say, 'You go to hell.' I would allow that...