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...Arabia faced an uphill struggle to win congressional approval to buy five AWACS radar planes (ironically, for protection against any military threat from Iran), four U.S. officials worked hard to turn the tide. They were North, then a little-known aide at the NSC; Charles P. Tyson, another NSC staffer; Richard Secord, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; and Robert Lilac, a Pentagon official who moved to the NSC, where he became North's boss. The four worked closely with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan to close the deal, which was bitterly opposed by Israel...
...Israelis, her name is simply "A," a former staffer in the office of Israeli President Moshe Katsav, known to the nation through press photographs depicting her shapely figure and streaky blonde hair, yet keeping her face hidden. That's because the anonymous Ms. "A" looks set to be the victim in a rape trial, in which - if it goes ahead - the defendant will be the president himself...
...Democrats to confront Bush's war powers. North Dakota's Byron Dorgan, the Democrats' third ranking member of the Senate and an outspoken Administration critic, said he thought it was "a little early" to roll back Bush's expansion of executive power in the previous Congress. A Democratic judiciary staffer supportive of a rollback said, "We understand the political reality." And leadership aides say bluntly that short of new revelations that turn public opinion against expanded executive authority, the Democrats are going to avoid directly confronting the President...
...North Korea's test was a "major foreign policy failure for China," says Kenneth Lieberthal, professor of political science at the University of Michigan and who - as a former senior National Security Council staffer in the Clinton Administration - had been part of the U.S. team negotiating with Pyongyang in the late 1990s. China, after all, had consistently said that the only way to deal with Pyongyang was to engage the regime and provide it with incentives such as food aid and other economic goodies to prevent it from taking such provocative steps as testing a nuclear device. "Then, Kim Jung...
After completing my interview with WHRB Program Director Darius P. Felton ’08, I was stopped on my way out of the station by one of his radio colleagues. This associate—presumably also a staffer of The Darker Side (TDS), WHRB’s hip-hop department—wanted to make sure I was aware that Felton is the man to know when it comes to independent hip-hop, citing the fact that Felton’s cell phone contains the contact numbers of several Boston-area hip-hop artists...