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...Specter...
Some DEA officials, however, do not buy the disclaimers by the CIA that its officers were unaware the National Guard was in the drug trade for profit. McFarlin, says a DEA man close to the investigations, "was no naive child, and neither was his boss." And he raises the specter of a heightened interagency feud. "The DEA has knowledge that the CIA had knowledge about what the Guard was doing. They didn't try to stop it." Furthermore, he says, "they didn't advise the DEA." The congressional intelligence committees are likely to investigate the matter further...
WITH ITS FOUNDER JAILED more than a year ago and many of its leaders captured, the Shining Path insurgency is badly crippled. But to Peruvian officials, Sendero Luminoso remains a frightening specter. Norwegian-born filmmaker Marianne Eyde discovered that after she completed a film about Sendero in September 1992. For a year, the national film board nervously weighed the $150,000 movie's "artistic merit," and Eyde voluntarily screened You Only Live Once (La Vida Es Una Sola) for Peru's top military officers so they could see it was not pro-Sendero. Retired General Sinesio Jarama liked...
...specific qualities of the current deficit are extended by fiscal conservatives like Tsongas and company to apply to deficit spending in general. They are using it as a political weapon to create a permanent fear of spending. Long after the deficit is reduced, the specter of overspending will haunt national debate. Aggressive, ambitious new spending will always have to contest with the ghost of "intergenerational morality...
...ARLEN SPECTER...