Word: opinion
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Earlier yesterday, a Reagan administration lawyer was questioned closely by the committees about his 1985 legal opinion that has been used by some in the administration to justify secret aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...
Bretton Sciaroni, counsel for the president's Intelligence Oversight Board, acknowledged that he was working in his first job as a lawyer and that he wrote the legal opinion after conducting two brief interviews and without seeing memos showing North's direct role in aiding the Contras...
Still, he stood by his opinion that congressional limits on military aid to the Nicaraguan Contras did not apply to North and the National Security Council...
This week Ronald Reagan, who has mostly been silent about AIDS, finally offered his opinion -- and the result could mean that blood tests will be requested from millions of Americans. During a meeting of the Domestic Policy Council attended by both Bennett and Koop, the President expressed bewilderment about objections to testing. "Why should we handle this any - differently than we handled any other epidemic?" he asked. "We have an obligation to protect innocent people." The President's remarks, said one participant, "were in the form of an inquiry, but it was obvious he was making a statement...
...have, or not to have, direct elections? That is the question Hong Kong will have to answer in the next few years as it prepares for a return to Chinese rule in 1997. Last week the government of the British territory sought to tap public opinion on the question by publishing a "green paper" that asks the colony's 5.5 million people to choose among some 30 electoral options. The findings of the survey will be submitted to Governor David Wilson in October. China has already made it clear that whatever Britain does must be compatible with the "basic...