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...snafu was symbolic as well as substantive: it showed an Administration floundering and failing in its attempts to restore its credibility. In their efforts to explain and justify the secret U.S. sales of weapons and spare parts to Iran -- which shattered the entire foundation of the Administration's fervent public efforts to take a strong stand against terrorism -- Reagan and his aides last week seemed only to be erecting a Tower of Babel abuzz with conflicting and contradictory voices. Presidential confidants past and present got into a public squabble: former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, one of the architects...
Apparently, the i.d. snafu has caused some problems. The raised letters and numbers come into play when the cards are used, for instance, to check out books or to charge purchases on term bills. At least one student we know had trouble getting some medicine last week from the University Health Services pharmacy...
...finally backfired, and Harvard got much more souffle on its face than if it had simply arrested those who wanted to be civilly disobedient. It is to be hoped that the University will now take activists a little more seriously. If Harvard administrators are embarrassed by the Memorial Hall snafu, then they surely will...
...bomb run completed, U.S. craft lifted quickly out of the Libyan light show and headed north. For the airmen flying the F-111s, that prospect included an additional eight hours' flying time and two more midair refueling operations. One last snafu occurred when one of the F-111s overheated and was diverted to a U.S. naval station near the Spanish town of Rota. When the rest of the crews returned to Britain after spending 15 hours strapped into the F- 111s' tight quarters, some men had to be lifted out of their seats...
Critics of Star Wars seized on the initial snafu as proof of the program's folly. Said Physicist Robert Bowman, president of the Institute for Space and Security Studies in Potomac, Md.: "The problem is in applications of an immensely complex system . . . The chances are that (it) never could be debugged...