Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Keylatch accident was a clear violation of existing PBHA policy; it is not something condoned by PBHA. In any event, one child in the front seat of the van with a seat belt on could have struck the driver's arm in the very same manner as the child in the Keylatch accident did, and the bus probably would have still flipped over, overloaded or not. Overcrowding of vehicles is wrong, yet the accident could happen at any time to anyone, transporting others in automobiles...
Your lead story on North implies that the vast majority of Americans who watched the hearings were hoodwinked by a performance that played on American sensitivities. What I saw and admired was an honest, patriotic, courageous man who answered insinuating and prosecutory questions in an intelligent manner...
...professors of American government and international relations said that the hearings revealed the Administration's decision-making to be flawed and would serve to warn future administrations away from conducting foreign policy in such a manner...
...congressional committees in particular were stunned by the media monster they created. Fitting punishment for their hypocrisy: first, the committees create a courtroom drama, complete with sharp lawyers shredding hapless witnesses on live television; then the committees complain that America has been captivated by a witness's manner instead of concentrating on his words and deeds. Can't have it both ways. Turn an inquiry into a spectacle and you cannot protest that the audience is insufficiently attentive to the transcript. The Iran-contra committees could have modestly pursued their business off-camera, as did the Tower commission. No secrecy...
...they have come to accept the U.S. concepts of parity and are willing to go further by cutting back to a level of "minimal deterrence." That would involve each side keeping only enough weapons to assure that it could retaliate credibly. The weapons would be deployed in a manner, such as atop single-warhead mobile missiles, that made them less of a first-strike threat...