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...result, the Reagan restrictive information policies appear to be losing ground. Congress is likely to balk at further attempts to keep a lid on scientific research--particularly in the field of superconductivity--congressional aides...
...problems with ethnic unrest will doubtless be very much on Gorbachev's mind this week, when he is scheduled to make a five-day visit to Yugoslavia, a nation with some of Eastern Europe's bitterest tribal rivalries. Yet even as the Soviet leader was seeking to keep the lid on at home, outbreaks of turbulence erupted in three of the Soviet-dominated states of Eastern Europe. In Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany, Communist authorities last week moved to stamp out separate shows of popular defiance. Though these outbreaks involved political rather than ethnic grievances, both forms of unrest...
Back then Gore fought Bush's efforts to lift the 4.5% interest lid on Government bonds. Bush hammered Gore's enthusiasm for the Trade Expansion Act in John Kennedy's Administration. But the two joined in the struggles for civil rights legislation. "There was never an impolite exchange between us," recalls Gore. "We could debate for two hours and then go down to the Senate Dining Room and have coffee together...
Tensions over the development of the X-ray laser might have remained behind closed doors if Woodruff had not been demoted by Livermore Director Roger Batzel in what Woodruff claims was retaliation for trying to put a lid on Teller. Prior to his transfer, Woodruff was responsible for proposed SDI weapons like the X-ray laser, a device that was supposed to channel the intense X rays from a nuclear bomb into a beam of radiation. In theory, the X rays would be capable of destroying enemy ICBMs in mid-flight. But tests showed that although such devices work...
...their innocence: they invite their victim's father to a dinner party and serve the food on the very trunk in which they've hidden the body. Unluckily for them, though, they've left a little piece of the rope they used to strangle their victim dangling from the lid of the trunk...