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...charges mount that the Reagan Administration consistently violated both the law and its own stated policies, the Senate Intelligence Committee seems compelled to at least hear out even the most outlandish tales that come its way. The lawmakers must decide whether to recommend confirmation of White House deputy for national security affairs Robert Gates as the new CIA director. Ben-Menashe's claims have provided another wrinkle, since he charges that Gates, while serving on Jimmy Carter's NSC staff and then as Casey's deputy at the CIA, participated in illegal operations...
...insinuations of Kitty Kelley satisfied some readers and repelled others. A third group could not get enough backstairs gossip, and its members are the target audience for A House of Secrets (Birch Lane; 237 pages; $18.95). The novel has two things to recommend it: a plausible first-person tone of wounded innocence, and an author named Patti Davis -- better known as the daughter of Nancy D. Reagan. The narrator is one Carla Lawton, who grows up in California with few friends and one opponent: her mother. Rachel Lawton lies compulsively and attempts to control every aspect of her child...
...Bell decides not to resume his Harvard teaching duties for the year after next, Clark has the right to recommend his dismissal...
...committee of citizens and state and municipal representatives, which has been meeting since February to look into improvements to the state's recommended Scheme Z design for the I-90/Route 1 interchange over the Charles River in East Cambridge, voted to recommend an alternative plan. The group is now considering a number of alternatives, all of which vary from Z by converting one or more of its overhead loops into tunnel form...
...faction led by Darman and Sununu, however, could point with satisfaction to some parts of the study. For example, the commission declined to recommend explicit target dates or percentage goals for the reduction of CO2 emissions. Such steps, which have been taken by most European nations, are firmly opposed by the Administration. Moreover, the U.S. has already adopted some of the other measures that the report urges, including investing in global climate research (to the tune of $1 billion) and planting millions of trees that can become storehouses for CO2. Though Bush undertook those actions for other reasons, they double...