Word: sales
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Tickets for the semis, and the finals and consolation game the following night go on sale at the ticket office in the basement of Harvard Hall at 2 p.m. today...
...commercials! That has been one of the strongest selling points of movies on video-cassettes. But next week, when the long-awaited home-video version of the blockbuster Top Gun goes on sale, consumers will be surprised to find the movie preceded by a 60-second commercial for Diet Pepsi. The spot, which ( features a jet pilot pouring a soda while flying upside down, will be the first by a major advertiser to appear on a U.S. videocassette...
Reagan may also have to look for a new CIA chief. He has nominated Deputy Director Robert Gates to succeed the ailing William Casey. Though the Tower commission found that Gates had played only a minor role in the sale of arms + to Iran, it raised suspicions that he might have been involved in the secret, and possibly illegal, provision of military assistance to the contras...
...that critical issue, the President gave three different versions of his recollection of what he had done about Israel's sale of 100 U.S.-made antitank missiles to Iran in August 1985. This shipment started America's involvement in Iran arms sales, since it was conditioned on agreement that the U.S. would resupply Israel. Testifying to the Tower board this past Jan. 26, Reagan said he had approved the shipment sometime in August 1985. He even underlined a portion of McFarlane's testimony making the same point to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. On Feb. 11, however, Reagan told...
Interviewed three times by the board, McFarlane stuck firmly to his story that Reagan had personally given him approval by telephone to tell Israel the President supported the sale. McFarlane said he even reminded Reagan that Shultz and Weinberger opposed this move, but the President assured him he would take "all the heat for that." While the report says it cannot "conclusively" resolve the dispute, the board is "persuaded that ((the President)) most likely provided this approval prior to the first shipment by Israel...