Word: posts
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WASHINGTON--Former U.S. Ambassador Lewis A. Tambs testified yesterday that in 1985, while U.S. aid to Nicaraguan Contra rebels was banned, White House aide Oliver L. North ordered him to use his post in Costa Rica to help the rebels open a military front in Nicaragua...
Just before assuming his post in Costa Rica, Tambs said, he and North met in North's office. At that meeting, "Colonel North asked me to go down and open up the southern front" in neighboring Nicaragua for the rebels, Tambs said...
Certainly the spate of post-Watergate reform legislation has been undermined by unintended consequences. Campaign-spending laws spawned a proliferation of political-action committees. Strictures against lobbying by former Government officials have failed to halt revolving-door Reaganism. The very act of drawing statutory limits almost seems to guarantee that most behavior will cluster just this side of legality. As Education Secretary William Bennett puts it, "What I worry about is a legislator who says we have an ethics crisis, let's do something about...
...week's end both patients were sitting up in chairs, and House had even enjoyed his first post-op hamburger. House had been happy to serve as both organ donor and recipient, said his mother Joyce Plesic. "He said if someone could help him, he should help someone else." Couch's wife Peggy said she was pleased that her husband might have a chance to meet the man who gave him his heart. Doctors say that get-together may occur this week...
...safeguard against predators, the cicadas usually first crawl out of the ground after sunset. Their main defense, though, may be sheer numbers: birds, raccoons and skunks can crunch up only so many insects. After climbing the nearest vertical object -- a tree or post, for example -- the insects take their last step toward adulthood. They hook their needle-like claws into the surface, arch their backs to break their skin and then wiggle free. A day later they are ready to fly away. All of this is merely a prelude to courtship, with the male cicadas seeking to attract mates with...