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Walsh might also charge some people, particularly North, Richard Secord and others who shredded documents, with conspiracy to obstruct justice. Legal experts predict Walsh will further seek indictments against officials, including North and possibly Robert McFarlane, who helped draft a chronology of the Iran-contra affair that contained serious inaccuracies. The chronology was intended to prepare the President for his Nov. 19 press conference and to help guide the late CIA Director William Casey through his congressional testimony. Here the charge would be conspiracy to suborn perjury. Walsh would not have to prove that Casey or anyone else actually gave...
...generation later the Japanese are discovering that the challenges of success can be just as tricky as the hardships of defeat. Now that the bionic yen has driven up the price of Japan's products in foreign markets and angry trade partners are threatening to obstruct those exports, the Japanese are trying to change once again. Government officials are looking to make the Japanese more voracious consumers, thus loosening dependence on exports and boosting demand for imports. Sacrifice is out, self-indulgence is in. The Japanese are being encouraged to work less, play more, save less, spend more and, while...
Reagan has threatened to veto any tax rate increase, and Wright said he wasn't sure the Congress could override him. "If the president is determined to obstruct deficit reduction, he can do that," he said...
...student also has been charged with having "attempted to obstruct" the vice consul by grabbing his arm, protesters said. It is not yet known who this student...
...doors of Science Center D in the same way that he was brought in, we acted to block the back doors peacefully and nonviolently "only so that he will leave by the front doors." We remained silent throughout this action and made no attempt to rush the podium or obstruct passage through the lobby doors; our intent was to ensure his eventual exit through the lobby and to demonstrate peacefully and silently our opposition to the system of apartheid which Kent-Brown was defending. We never considered using force to deny Kent-Brown's freedom to move wherever or whenever...