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...American people will not permit the press and the Congress to cripple another president...
First is the Boland Amendment, which forbade any use of federal funds to aid the contras from 1984 until this October, when it expired. Meese contends that "provisions had been made by Congress to permit the U.S. to seek funding from third countries," such as Israel, but he appears to be simply wrong. The amendment was rewritten last year to include an explicit prohibition against U.S. solicitation of third-country financing, and that ban was in effect throughout the time Iranian money supposedly was being funneled to the Nicaraguan rebels...
...Jean-Louis Fourtanier, whose Paris-based CTL Telematique has formed a partnership with Baseline, a New York City data service, to provide a selection of Minitel offerings in the U.S. Earlier this month, Baseline hooked up a 64-channel telephone link to France that for $10 an hour will permit stateside subscribers to tap into news reports from Liberation and feature stories from the magazine L'Evenement du Jeudi. Says Fourtanier: "Once operations begin, they could start rolling like a snowball...
...Graham is correct to point out the illegality of the protesters' actions, but the real issue is whether they are justifiable as civil disobedience. The doctrine of civil disobedience does permit the use of extra-legal means to accomplish praiseworthy ends, but the protesters in question have crossed accepted bounds. Only peaceful forms of protest which break no laws, or those that break immoral laws are justifiable. These protesters, however, clearly broke laws of crucial value, as a ploy to get publicity...
...economy is growing by an estimated 5.5% annually, its best performance in more than a decade. Although some U.S. lenders wonder whether the growth can last, most of the big foreign banks seem resigned to giving Garcia more time in the hope that continued economic progress will eventually permit the government to start attacking the debt problem...