Word: specters
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After the Libyan allegations broke, Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter said Gates' confirmation "is no longer a shoo-in." The committee had already put off a vote until at least next week, in case the Tower commission disclosed something new about Gates' role in Iranscam. There is still some ambiguity about that role. Two sources told TIME last week that Gates helped piece together the Ollie chronology. The CIA vehemently denies it. In fact, one official says Gates visited North's office late last November to demand that North admit he lied about one point...
...Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) charged Gates with trying to evade responsibility for "skimpy, scanty and really misleading" testimony that he said former CIA boss William J. Casey presented to the committee last year...
Gates was deputy CIA director at the time, and Specter said, "You are trying to distance yourself from that testimony," He said Gates' explanation of his role as having directed preparation of Casey's testimony but not its details carried "a shade of dissembling...
Today, strangely enough, it is possible to imagine a future in which Lady Chatterley might again be banned for setting a harmful example, but this time in a grimly different sense. The specter of the deadly and incurable disease called AIDS -- acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- has cast a shadow over the American sexual landscape. Since AIDS is chiefly transmitted through sex, it is forcing partners to a painful re-examination of their bedroom practices. The heedless abandon of Lawrencian lovers begins to seem dangerous and irresponsible, for oneself and for others. Instead of a transfixed gaze, lovers may feel they have...
Coping with the specter of AIDS is particularly difficult for the heirs of the American sexual revolution, probably smaller in numbers than advertised but nonetheless vehement in the assertion of a freer, more open set of mores for sexual conduct. Should AIDS spread in the most pessimistic proportions projected, there may finally sound a general alert, resulting in an increase in monogamy, in abstinence, in widespread acceptance of tough new rules of the game. But unless and until that point comes, the casualties may needlessly mount...