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According to this view, junior NSC officers, prominently including a specialist in counterterrorism named Oliver North, were given wide authority to call on all branches of the military and intelligence communities for assistance, with no questions asked. The officers were told to use their ! imagination and to try unorthodox methods...
...said that powers are separated to preserve liberties. But separation can also destroy liberties," writes Louis Fisher, a specialist in American national government in the Library of Congress. "The framers of the American Constitution did not want a political system so fragmented in structure, so divided in authority, that Government could not function...
...could draw the U.S. into another Asian war. Though U.S. leverage in South Korea is limited, its stake in the country's future is considerable. Writing in the New York Times last November, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer and Edward J. Baker, a Harvard Asian-affairs specialist, declared, "Next to the Middle East, South Korea is probably the part of the world where American interests and world peace are most threatened...
Boesky had fingered Martin Siegel, a former Kidder merger specialist who supplied the arbitrager with tips on takeovers. After Siegel pleaded guilty to criminal charges, authorities alleged that Kidder should have known what Siegel was doing. General Electric, which owns 80% of Kidder, struck the SEC deal to avoid prosecution -- and to put the scandal in the past. Even as the settlement was announced, GE pumped $100 million in capital into the brokerage...
Charles Heckscher, assistant professor at the Business School and specialist in labor, says "each organizing area has strong leadership and support...