Word: mined
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...Congress. Enraged by a feeling that they had been misled about the Administration's Central American policy, and deeply worried about where that policy is leading, the Senate passed by a landslide vote of 84 to 12 a nonbinding resolution demanding that no U.S. money be used to mine Nicaraguan waters. Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater voiced his colleagues' anger and dismay in an astonishingly pungent letter to CIA Director William Casey. Said Mr. Conservative: "I am pissed off ... The President has asked us to back his foreign policy. Bill, how can we back his foreign policy when...
...expressed in the Pi Eta newsletter, whether a "parody" or not, are totally offensive to a substantial part of the Harvard community, myself included. Were it up to me, the Pi Eta would by now only be a bad memory. But, for good or bad, that power is not mine...
...that the administration wants to head off a Nicaraguan attempt to use the World Court as a forum for "anti-American propaganda." Hughes didn't mention what that propaganda might be, but you can assume it would include the charge that we are trying to subvert their government and mine their harbors. This second argument exposes the cynical, anti-democratic side of the administration. No argument was made defending the administration position on legal or moral grounds. And President Reagan's silence on the issue has sent this message: I am the bully, thus I am right...
...target: Milton Coleman, a veteran black reporter who has covered Jackson for the Washington Post. When asked about the threat, Jackson conceded that it was "wrong." But he declined to condemn his Muslim chum. "I cannot assume responsibility for every state ment made by a friend or supporter of mine," Jackson argued. That Farr Farrakhan speaking in khan's three-week-old speech became an issue just before the New York primary, Jackson says, suggests political "tricks and treachery." Farrakhan is riled at Coleman for reporting, in a Post story in February, that Jackson privately disparaged Jews with...
Taking advantage of the first reasonably good weather of the season, the Harvard women's softball team put together a strong mine hit performance to defeat Smith College 5-3, yesterday...