Word: projects
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Finally, while the role of the CIA analyst who will be part of the research team of course must be greatly circumscribed, as it has been presented the project would seem unobjectionable. The CIA's task is to collect and analyze data and to help maintain American interests abroad. The K-School's mission is to study and help improve the operations of government. It would be foolish to maintain that the CIA has not acted objectionably in the past. But it has done so at the behest of leaders who failed to understand that America's interests abroad almost...
While Pipes said the treaty allows the Soviet Union to project a more positive image abroad, Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center, said that the INF treaty is advantageous to the U.S. because the Soviets will have to destroy four missiles for every one that the U.S. destroys. Goldman, who will attend a lunch today at which Gorbachev will be present, explained that the Soviet leader must sign the agreement because his country has economic problems and cannot afford to spend so much money on missiles...
...clinic will provide medicine and education to residents of Kapchelal Village, which is located in one of the less developed regions of Kenya, organizers said. It will focus on malnutrition and parasitic diseases. HAC is sponsoring the project because these issues are directly related to hunger in Africa, Marx said...
...expects to complete the building of the clinic over the next two years, and it will administer the construction through a liason in Kenya, the ODN official said. She described the clinic as a long term project oriented towards development and not just relieving immediate problems...
...project, called Zenith Star, has never produced a laser beam, let alone a deadly one. The laser generator, which is being developed separately by TRW at an estimated cost of almost $100 million, has been plagued by problems and budget cuts over the past two years. Chemical lasers are widely discredited by scientists, who are dubious about the prospects for turning them into weapons. Moreover, they may never be tested in space because of restrictions imposed by international arms agreements. The aluminum-foil- covered model that Reagan so proudly inspected is, in the words of John Pike of the Federation...