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Lackner denies any criminal activities and says, "I never paid him ((Berlin)) anything." But he does not seem to have convinced the FBI. The agents who searched his home and office, Lackner told TIME, grilled him extensively about supposed payments to Berlin and played for him several secretly taped recordings of his telephone conversations. One call was placed by Lackner to Berlin from Parkin's house. Lackner insists he was only trying to arrange to have a cup of coffee with Berlin. Nonetheless, Berlin has been reassigned, and the uproar has held up the award of the IFF contract. Parkin...
Procedural reforms rarely seem to do much good. In 1986 Congress enacted a law intended to close the revolving door by requiring that certain former Pentagon procurement officers wait at least two years before going to work for ; contractors with whom they had conducted "substantial" business. But that did nothing to stave off Ill Wind...
...Others point to a Machiavellian third possibility: that the coup was a brilliantly executed scheme in which the military feigned an internal split to force Manigat to act rashly. The last theory assumes that Namphy and Paul were actually co- conspirators. Farfetched as that may seem, it was striking to see Paul, presumably in an act of self-preservation, standing at Namphy's side the morning after the coup...
...theses, as well as the advance buildup for the conference, seem to demonstrate a willingness to open up a byzantine political system. One of the most unusual aspects of the party-conference preparations -- a credit to both glasnost and Gorbachev's adroitness -- is that Soviet citizens have been able to read about delegate fights in the press. Pravda told of a meeting at an 8,000-seat soccer stadium in the west Siberian city of Omsk at which enraged rank-and-file members harangued party bosses because a final delegate list did not include those who had received the most...
Never mind that many versions of this saga contradicted one another and the facts of the matter; they were invariably pithy and memorable. Donaldson's determination to set the record straight leads him to a repudiation of Cheever's freewheeling manner. Cliches seem to certify sober, scholarly research: "Life was not all fun and games, however" . . . "The New Yorker's taste was genteel, and as time wore on Cheever wrote about everything under the sun" . . . "Fred was the apple of his father...