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Final details on the compromise involving Poindexter and North were hashed out at a session involving top lawyers for the Senate and House investigating committees and assistants from Walsh's office. The session marked the culmination of an attempt to reach a compromise on how to proceed with questioning of President Reagan's former national security adviser and his former aide on the National Security Council...
When the case first broke in late 1985, the U.S. was not yet aware of the seriousness of the espionage, and accepted Israeli promises of assistance in settling the affair. The Justice Department wanted to proceed with the trial of Pollard and the indictment of his Israeli contacts, but the State Department argued that American relations with Israel should receive primary consideration. Secretary of State George Shultz spoke of Israeli "cooperation" on the case, and State Department Legal Adviser Abraham Sofaer headed a delegation that was sent to Israel to collect the documents Pollard had stolen. According to court records...
...underground nuclear explosions. In the version most acceptable to the U.S.S.R., the agreement would provide that SDI work be limited solely to laboratory research. Apparently the compromise agreement proposed by the Soviet side was unacceptable to the U.S. side, since it deprived America of a free hand to proceed with...
...shall now proceed to the central question of the package approach. A seemingly serious argument is cited in defense of the package principle: imagine that the U.S.S.R. abandons the package and agrees to a substantial cut in strategic missiles, while the U.S. maintains its freedom to deploy SDI and at a certain point begins launching SDI components into space -- in the version proposed by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, for example ((Weinberger eight weeks ago called for early deployment of a preliminary SDI, including some space-based components)). Weinberger's project envisions the development of a network of space stations...
...case grew indirectly out of a 1982 suit in which Hand upheld two Alabama laws promoting prayers in public schools. When his ruling was reversed on appeal, an undaunted Hand accommodatingly allowed a group of parents and teachers who had intervened as defendants in the prayer dispute to proceed as plaintiffs in the textbook suit, advancing claims they had first raised in the earlier case. His ruling last week prompted hosannas from the religious right. "Humanism will no longer be guaranteed a preferred position in American education," exulted Robert Skolrood, executive director of the National Legal Foundation, a group established...