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Ethics is the latest section that TIME has added to reflect changing trends and interests, including Health & Fitness (1985), Food (1984), Computers (1982) and Design (1981). The department will be overseen by Assistant Managing Editor John Elson, who has edited the Nation, World, Essay and Religion sections during his 30-year career at TIME. "When ethics is the heart of a matter of public concern, the story will run in this section," he explains. "But Ethics will never be a platform for any one point of view." The section will draw on editors, writers and reporter-researchers knowledgeable...
...entire flow of money from Iran to the contras may have been overseen by a loose but complicated network of arms dealers and other powerful men with ties to Government officials. By coordinating the moves among such a quasi-board of directors, someone like North could avoid the bureaucratic tangles and congressional oversight that might thwart secret operations. Aside from other players, the Saudis may have taken a major role, though they deny it. According to the New York Times, the Saudis and the U.S. began in 1983 to discuss supplying arms to the contras. Those involved included North, Secord...
...week hiatus between then and the Nov. 14 revelations would mark a truly substantial period of clandestine cooperation between the speculator, the SEC enforcement unit commanded by Gary Lynch, and the Manhattan branch of the U.S. Attorney's office headed by Rudolph Giuliani. The aggressive Giuliani, who has overseen the criminal side of the investigation since Levine was snared, may eventually become almost as renowned for chasing insider traders as for bringing Mafia bosses to justice...
...sleep for generations. Or, hardly more energizing, it may be a three-hour course taught by a gym teacher, followed by a display of condoms or foam brought along by a speaker from Planned Parenthood. In Kansas, the curriculums for phys ed, drivers' ed and sex ed are all overseen by the same state board of education official. "No matter what is written in the curriculum, there is not much going on out there," says Mary Lee Tatum, a sex-education consultant. "Under 15% of U.S. children get really good sex education. We are only beginning to institute adequate programs...
Repeated telephone calls were placed from a safe house in El Salvador used by Americans aiding Nicaraguan rebels to the office of a White House official who has overseen U.S. policy against Nicaragua's leftist government, according to Salvadoran phone bills...