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...Breindel's co workers at the Senate Intelligence committee where he worked this year said they still retain the highest regard for Breindel's abilities as a writer and a capable member of the staff he served on for only eight weeks before his arrest At the time of his arrest, Sen Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) asked for Breindel's resignation...
Turner, who has been highly critical of the CIA under Ronald Reagan, has rewritten the offending chapters, but he is digging in his heels to retain some anecdotes about CIA clandestine operations that he insists do not compromise U.S. security interests. The nature of the proposed deletions, [he was quoted as saying, '"changes the chapters and makes them less appealing from a sales point of view...
...Adelman's defeat would be "the Senate's equivalent of a nuclear freeze." The freeze movement was spearheaded in the Senate by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy and in the House by Markey. And after Reagan denounced public service jobs as "make work" programs, Boland successfully worked to retain them in the $4.6 billion jobs bill enacted in March. Gloats Markey: "Our delegation is like the 1927 Yankees-the greatest team of all time...
...Administration also said it would back legislation requiring employers to permit the jobless to enroll in the health-care plans of their working spouses. At least 40% of the nation's 11.4 million unemployed have working partners, said Stockman, and nearly one-third of the jobless could retain health benefits that...
Checkhov's paring away of the essential elements of the plot contains the germ of his genius, but it can also make dramatic tension difficult to sustain. As all attention is focused on the actors, it is sometimes difficult to retain audience interest through the lengthy and introspective soliloquies...