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Subtitled The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras, The Chronology is the maiden effort of the National Security Archive, a nonprofit institute opened in October by former Washington Post Reporter Scott Armstrong. Using the Freedom of Information Act to obtain Government documents, the group acts as a clearinghouse for journalists and scholars researching issues from nuclear strategy to Central America...
...operating with 30 staffers and a $1 million budget (mainly raised from foundations), the Archive started as a storage space for Armstrong, dubbed the "Great Accumulator" by his former colleague and co-author Bob Woodward (The Brethren). Armstrong, 41, who worked for the Senate Watergate Committee before joining the Post, began collecting documents by the carload in 1982 for a book about U.S. foreign policy. When his Post computer showed signs of overload, Armstrong created a place where Government documents like his could be stored and shared: a kind of national-security Nexis...
...Rupert Murdoch in 1982 and shut down the Baltimore News-American four years later. As if to prove that it was not deserting big cities entirely, Hearst bought the Houston Chronicle in March for $400 million. The Chronicle (circ. 425,000) is vying for reader loyalty with the Houston Post (circ. 316,000), and victory will require greater infusions of cash...
...magnitude of the feat. For the first time, the Soviets successfully tested the brand-new Energia, a 220- ft. rocket capable of thrusting more than 100-ton payloads into orbit, at least four times that of the U.S. space shuttle's orbiter. A Soviet TV commentator declared in a post-launch videotape that the new rocket could lift into space "the blocks from which cities will be built." Even U.S. observers were impressed. "It's the most powerful rocket in the world -- ever," said James Oberg, a Houston-based expert on Soviet space ventures, after the launch. Unlike the usual...
...chairman of the largest U. S. bank admits it may never collect on major portions of its foreign debt. Citicorp will post a loss of $2.5 billion for the quarter, which may lessen to $1 billion for the year. -- Prosperity and controversy on the U. S.- Mexican border. -- Madison Avenue fights a new service tax. -- Want an oddball investment? Try baseball trading cards...