Word: portioning
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...published this week in The Crimson is a model of irresponsible journalism. It is filled with half truths and untruths, which could and should have been checked before publication. The United States did not, as the articles suggest, use "Micronesia" as a test site "for advanced nuclear weaponry." A portion of the northern Marshall Islands, which itself is only a small portion of Micronesia, was indeed used for some years, ending in 1954, for nuclear tests. By today's standards the tests were primitive, not advanced. The article next implies that such tests are going on today, further raising body...
F.D.N. leaders admit that covert U.S. aid accounts for more than 50% of their organization's total funding. Independent estimates of the covert U.S. portion, however, run closer to 75%. Without Reagan Administration funding, an F.D.N. spokesman estimates, the organization could keep fewer than 2,000 combatants in the field, down from 8,000 today...
...Tegucigalpa, Adolfo Calero Portocarrero, leader of the rebel Nicaraguan Democratic Front (F.D.N.), said that his organization reserved the right to undertake similar actions in the future. The aim, said Calero, was to halt the massive flow of Soviet bloc weapons to the Sandinistas and, only incidentally, to prevent a portion of that arms aid from being passed along to El Salvador. Finally, Calero declared that "we are confident that the U.S. will continue to back the struggle for democracy in the Americas...
...question is more one of principle than reality. Defense Department officials say that the Pentagon funds compose only a small fraction of University research. Harvard, for instance, only receives about $4 million, a small portion of the more than $100 million the entire federal government doles out here. But the quest for censorship in this area is indicative of the general Administration instinct concerning information--to suppress...
...unfolding account was a remarkable exposure of the inside workings of portion of the newspaper. It focused on Foster Winans, 35, one of two main "Heard on the Street" writers before he was fin two weeks ago. At that time, the paper said, Winans admitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission that he had leaked items from upcoming columns to investors. Among those who may have benefited was David J. Carpenter, 34, a former Journal news clerk and Winans' homosexual lover. The two men share an apartment in Manhattan's Greenwich Village...