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...report does not cite specific ways in which Reagan failed to uphold the law. But it raps him for allowing the National Security Council rather than the CIA to conduct covert operations and then failing to monitor the activity closely to see that it was kept within the boundaries of the law. NSC staff members were "out of control," the report says, with Oliver North and Poindexter "privatizing" foreign policy and allowing retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord and his business partner, Albert Hakim, to handle American negotiations with Iran and control huge sums of money from the transactions...
...Rosemarie Van Camp said that the decision to provide five additional scholarships for Black South Africans to study in their homeland was in part a reaction to the senate's presentation at the trustee's meeting. Both Hahn and Ganz, who was sent by Tufts to South Africa to monitor the program, said they were pleased with the funding but added that they would have preferred total divestment...
...Hall Monitor: Harvard junior goalie Stephen Hall is hoping it warms up before the Crimson takes the field against UConn in Sunday's first-round NCAA playoff. The way things have been going for Hall, he won't be doing much moving around to keep warm...
Last week's launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base ended the string of failures. The rocket carried into orbit a secret military payload that independent experts believe to be a KH-11 photo-reconnaissance satellite, enabling the U.S. to monitor Soviet compliance with arms agreements...
...release. The lack of an effective marker has, for example, held up a test by Biotechnica International, a Cambridge, Mass., firm, of Rhizobium bacteria altered to boost their ability to fix nitrogen in the soil. In one of the California ice- minus tests, however, scientists have been able to monitor the spread of anti- icing bacteria on potato plants. The marker system in this case was rifampicin resistance, less sensitive than Monsanto's multiple indicator but still able to detect the presence of as few as 100 bacteria in a handful of leaves. The bacteria were successful as well...