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In political circles, Chirac is better known for his combative nature and his fierce ambition to become President. The new Premier's advisers softened his image during the recent campaign by dressing him in muted tweeds and exchanging his severe black-framed eyeglasses for lighter tortoiseshells. Still, the real Chirac...
Like almost every other issue in Washington this year, their dispute is coming to center on the budget. But the dispute is muted because Casey is perhaps the only official in the entire Government whose spending proposals cannot even be discussed in public. They are buried in the Pentagon budget...
Spence does not adequately answer any of these concerns. Instead, the dean offers a fuller account of his October report on Safran's conference contract, concluding in muted tones that there were "problems" with his failure to inform the participants of the CIA funding, his failure to tell the University...
White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said the polygraph questions will concern security, not an individual's personal life. Speakes denied that the stepped-up use of lie detectors is directly related to the spate of spy arrests this year. Those cases caused enough alarm about national security, however, that criticism...
The exhibit's extraordinary range of colors, from the full lush tangerine to white that shines with the intensity of the noon sun on Himalayan snow, comes partly from Persia (where shades of muted pistachio and oleander pink originated), partly from the British raj (all those brown and khaki earth...