Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special prosecutor's surrender marked a victory for what some experts see as North's strategy of legal "graymail," in which he threatened to reveal some of the nation's most closely guarded secrets if the case against him was pressed. He has applied additional pressure on the White House in the past two weeks by subpoenaing as defense witnesses at least 35 current and former Administration officials, including President Ronald Reagan and President-elect George Bush. If they refuse to testify on the grounds of national security or Executive privilege, North could argue that he is being denied...
Walsh's effort to try North on the broad charge of conspiracy was probably doomed from the start. For months the special prosecutor navigated between the fears of the intelligence community that North would expose secrets and Gesell's insistence that North be given great latitude in his use of evidence. Walsh's defeat became inevitable last month when Gesell laid down rules for handling the secret data contained in the 300 classified documents the special prosecutor had planned to use. The judge would permit excision of the covert sources and methods by which the data were obtained. However...
Around the world, in war zones and areas stricken by natural disasters, a special breed of doctors and nurses are infusing the Hippocratic oath with new force, risking their lives out of a commitment to what Dr. Bernard Kouchner, one of the founders of the movement, calls "the duty to interfere." Volunteer medics are treating tribespeople for malaria and tuberculosis in East Africa, performing amputations on victims of land mines in Sri Lanka, building clean-water systems in El Salvador and operating surgical clinics, often under gunfire, in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon...
Bush promised last week to reveal ideas for reducing the deficit at a special joint session of Congress shortly after his Inauguration. He has also asked House and Senate leaders to join him in early budget talks. Bush's designated budget director, Richard Darman, has discussed with Republican leaders the idea of dividing the budget into five to 20 categories, such as "national security" and "health care," and putting an overall spending limit on each. Added together, the reductions would slice the deficit to $100 billion. It would be up to Congress to fill in the blanks by deciding which...
...products taken from sewers, ventilators and pipes. If chemical weapons were not yet in production (as the U.S. believes to be the case at Rabta), the inspection would turn up no damning residues. Other telltale signs would be the protective equipment used at the plant, including the presence of special ventilation systems and chemical sensors connected to alarms. But that same equipment is employed in pesticide and fertilizer manufacture. Inspectors must also look for military- oriented equipment, such as machinery to produce or fill chemical-weapons shells. The Rabta facility offers one other clue: it is surrounded by surface...