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...repeated Gates's pledge to resign rather than mislead Congress or acquiesce in something improper, calling it "the strongest and clearest pledge ever made by any nominee...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Boren Announces Support for Gates | 10/18/1991 | See Source »

...shortly after, were delighted to do that job. They frisked both Kryuchkov and Yazov; Kryuchkov offered no resistance, but the Defense Minister grumbled (neither was armed). Even then Rutskoi and his companions were worried that other plotters might try something. "We told the airport to prepare two planes to mislead the scoundrels," Rutskoi later said on Soviet television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postmortem Anatomy of A Coup | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

...That is much more upbeat than in France, where a Paris Match/B.V.A. poll last week showed that 70% of respondents feared degeneration into a third world war. But the hint of U.S. pessimism underscored a widespread feeling that the American people had been misled, or perhaps been encouraged to mislead themselves, about how hard it would be to dislodge Iraqis from Kuwait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perceptions: Sorting Out the Mixed Signals | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

...reasoned arguments that should be stated before hundreds of thousands of young Americans are sent to risk their lives--not to mention the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis oppressed by Saddam Hussein--we have heard from Washington only cynical arguments designed to blind and mislead...

Author: By Rosa Ehrenreich, | Title: Support the Troops: Resist | 1/18/1991 | See Source »

...greater interest than a test pattern. To top it off, such commercials have to include a disclaimer warning potential customers that they shouldn't be picking attorneys through TV ads in the first place. The Florida Bar Association, which developed the rules, says the dial- a-lawyer ads mislead consumers and influence juries by creating the impression that personal-injury cases are motivated by greed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: How Dull Can You Be? | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

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