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...support staff, is running thin on defendants, new evidence and sympathy. A grand jury may explore further links to Reagan and George Bush, and Poindexter could be called to testify with a grant of immunity. People who know the admiral well are convinced that the effort will come to naught, that history will have to judge Reagan -- where the buck really stops -- on the fuzzy story before us. "John Poindexter was made a flag officer in the U.S. Navy for the express reason that he would not break in a crisis," says retired Admiral Clarence Hill Jr., a friend...
Such grandiose plans may come to naught if the Georgian independence drive sparks ethnic tensions among the republic's minority peoples, who make up a substantial 30% of the population. Many are concerned about the Georgia-for- Georgians tone that has been creeping into the political debate. Gamsakhurdia believes Moscow is "fighting against us through the hand of other nationalities...
...Crimson continued to display a strong pitching tandem in Sparrow and Fromholz, but their efforts once again went for naught due to some key defensive breakdowns and a lack of consistent hitting. In a rebuilding season, Harvard needs to look towards improving fundamentals, making the routine play and enjoying themselves out on the diamond...
...Nixon's policy of detente ran into a buzz saw of bipartisan anti-Soviet opposition. When a Watergate-wounded Nixon went to see Leonid Brezhnev in the Crimea in 1974, he refused to visit Yalta nearby, lest anyone accuse him of another giveaway. It was all for naught: the traveling White House press gleefully filed stories with the dread dateline...
...fifth barrier to political action is the knowledge that many of the ultimate solutions are almost unimaginably difficult. And since they are harder than anything we have done before, and the efforts may all come to naught anyway, why mess with them? Why not conserve our energy and just not even try? That is a formidable barrier, not least because the solutions require international cooperation on a scale that is totally unprecedented in history...