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...reduced the death toll by relying on trained professional soldiers for most of the fighting. Rafsanjani announced in 1985 that Iran intended "to achieve victory with as few casualties as possible." But last year champions of the zealous Guards gained a stronger voice in ruling circles. The Guards have scant concern for casualties and favor launching human waves against enemy positions. In a unanimous vote last month, the U.N. Security Council demanded that Iran and Iraq declare a cease-fire, and last week the U.S. pushed efforts for a resolution calling for an arms embargo on Iran...
...many of the telegrams Sullivan has so agressively waved in the face of the Iran-Contra committee. He made a spirited and emotional defense of Inouye's character and a stern repudiation of the attitude reflected in those telegrams at one point during the hearings. Rudman's speech warranted scant attention in the press; it illicited a sullen agreement from North. But neither North nor his attorney, nor for that matter Senator Orrin Hatch or Henry Hyde, two of the biggest citers of the telegrams, made any public statement on the issue...
...surviving fellow passengers do not strike Talbot as promising heroes or heroines for his second installment, nor do any of the more prominent naval officers in charge: dour Captain Anderson or the affable but proper First Lieut. Charles Summers. The journal keeper takes up his pen with scant inspiration: "There is no story to tell...
...happen. Up to now though, Hart has run a gaffe-free campaign that provides scant fodder for his hungry rivals. Perhaps his only strategic error was to neglect the Iowa battleground for much of 1986. But Hart's Senate record wins Democratic applause, especially his consistent opposition to Reaganomics and his long advocacy of an oil-import fee. Hart's speeches have grown more evocative and thematic; technocratic details are now left to his position papers, which are voluminous enough to satisfy anyone's hunger for beef...
...years in a row, Radcliffe has barely missed winning the national championships. Two seasons ago the heavies lost to Princeton in a close race, and last year the Crimson lost in a photo finish to Wisconsin by a scant four-hundredths of a second...