Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weapons? When Pentagon Analyst Franklin Spinney (TIME, March 7) raised these possibilities in explosive congressional testimony, his superiors loftily replied that these were merely "historical" problems that Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger's cost cutters have brought under control. Moreover, they hinted that they would shortly have proof in the form of a new report on weapons costs. Spinney's boss, David Chu, promised the Senate Armed Services Committee "a pleasant surprise." The Pentagon unveiled the document last week, and the chief surprise turned out to be how clumsy it had been in practicing accounting sleight of hand...
...awaited trial of four national guardsmen accused of the 1980 murder of four American churchwomen near the capital of San Salvador. Despite the testimony of another guardsman who has confessed to complicity in the killings, plus FBI ballistics and fingerprint evidence, the judge said that Salvadoran justice demanded additional proof. Three days later, it was announced that the president of a Salvadoran human rights commission, a 34-year-old woman, had been killed during an army counterinsurgency sweep...
...American product Reed brought with him to El Salvador was not favorably received his bullet-proof vest. These are illegal in the country, for fear they will fall in the hands of the rebels. "I wasn't expecting an assassination attempt." Reed explains. "But I knew I'd be covering dangerous stories, and a bullet-proof vest was a tool of my trade...
...standard Harvard line. Right after "Gee, Harvard food...." and "The heat in in our room..." comes "Boy, students of today are so unconcerned, so apathetic." Such a safe bet--you can't be on the wrong side of the argument: the burden of proof is on those who dispute the evidence of apathy...
...attacking the competence and judgment of members of the Reagan Administration whenever he happens to disagree with them. He has upbraided Presidential Pollster Richard Wirthlin for accepting a polling contract from Americans who sympathize with the Palestine Liberation Organization and scoffed at National Security Adviser William Clark as "living proof that still waters can run shallow." Safire has repeatedly criticized the Administration as acquiescent on foreign policy, particularly for its pledge to withdraw military support from Taiwan and its lifting of sanctions against construction of a natural gas pipeline from the Soviet Union to supply Western Europe. Says...