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...addition, despite the fact that Putnam wrote that the report is declassified, and Huntington also wrote that he "secured its declassification under the Freedom of Information Act," Huntington has failed to answer my request for a copy of this report (and related material), and I have also been unable to obtain the report under the Freedom of Information Act. Indeed, the State Department wrote me that release of "one of the documents" I asked for (the Huntington Report) "requires coordination with another government agency." (This agency may be the CIA, for whom Huntington has consulted in the past.) Thus Huntington...
...committee recommendation suggested that 1000 signatures be required on petitions for the forums. "A petition to request an Open Forum is not an indictment of the recruiting organization," the report stated. "And the Open Forum is not a trial...
...cross-motives. People were demanding an end to anything from "date rape" to "this sexist shit" to "the patriarchy." Some were crying, "People unite" and others, insistently, "Women unite." I wondered how the men on the march felt about that. I wondered, also, how they felt about the polite request that they walk at the end of the procession, so that those women who felt the need to be separate could be. One cheer went, "Gay, straight; Black, white. Same struggle, same fight!" Looking around me, I could see very few Black marchers. Unity seemed artifically imposed...
...Friday, state Supreme Court Justice Stephen Crane, the trial judge, refused a defense request to dismiss or at least delay the trial. Goetz's lawyers charged that the prosecution illegally withheld information favorable to the defense from the grand jury that indicted...
Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy has scoffed at Weinberger's request as just an "expensive going-away present for Navy Secretary Lehman," while Democratic Senator Carl Levin has noted that the Pentagon's annual report to Congress last year said the two oldest carriers in the Navy's fleet did not have to be replaced until the 1990s. At a public hearing, Levin asked Weinberger, "How in the world did these two carriers slip into the budget?" The Secretary insisted that nothing had changed; since each takes about seven years to build, he was still merely "asking...