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North was also accused of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by using the tax-exempt National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty to solicit $3.2 million in contributions, which he used to buy lethal contra aid. NEPL President Carl ("Spitz") Channell and Public Relations Consultant Richard Miller pleaded guilty to the same charges last spring, and presumably will testify against North. On all the charges, North faces a possible sentence of 85 years in prison and a staggering $4 million in fines...
...used to manage the Reds," Anderson informed two Soviet scouts who came to Lakeland a couple of weeks ago to solicit fundamentals. "It's a bad soldier who doesn't dream to be a general," said Alexander Ardatov, coach of the Soviets' budding national team. "Right," Sparky told him, "and if you can hit, you can play...
Bush's management style would be radically different from that of his present boss. While Reagan likes to have a strong chief of staff filtering the information that reaches him, Bush prefers to hash out issues with his advisers. Moreover, he would not hesitate to solicit opinions outside his inner circle. "I believe in talking to as many people as I can. I always have," Bush told TIME last week. "If we had a problem on a certain matter involving the Soviet Union, for example, I wouldn't hesitate to call in a particular CIA expert and talk...
...overdue move, the University Health Services (UHS) this week will solicit student opinion about the quality of care. In a UHS-prepared, 14-page questionnaire. 10 percent of the student body will have a rare chance to talk back to the people who provide their health care. Past surveys have been taken seriously and led to improvements, like increased psychological support staff and improved gynecological services...
...willing to listen? No one is blessed with the intellectual and experiential range to handle all the demands of the presidency, so an important litmus test is the willingness to solicit and absorb good advice...