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...recurring accusation against President Ferdinand Marcos is that he, his wife Imelda and their friends have used their power to plunder the Philippines, thereby aggravating the country's economic plight. Opposition Candidate Corazon Aquino played on the issue last week, promising a thorough investigation of the Marcos family's financial dealings if she wins. "The new leadership will exert all efforts to eliminate the social cancer of graft and corruption," she declared. "What belongs to the people will be given back to the people...
...capture the national fancy is his seeming eternal youth. He simply will not lie down and act his age. When he went to the hospital the other day for his colon checkup, he had been off solid food for 24 hours. After then enduring all the indignities of a thorough exam, he gave a thumbs up, climbed into his helicopter for Camp David, ate a hearty meal and announced to his weary companions that they would all see a movie...
...writing to report on the conclusions I have reached as a result of a thorough review of two contracts between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Professor Nadav Safran, the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES or Center). The purposes of this review were the following: (1) to determine if Harvard University and Faculty of Arts and Sciences guidelines and policies with respect to research and closely-related activities were followed: and (2) to determine whether these same policies are adequate to protect academic freedom and the integrity of the research process at Harvard...
...York Times noted the Justice's death in the lower right-hand part of its front page. The Times formated the Justice's biography by outlining his stands on many important Supreme Court decisions and mentioning a few well known quotes from his carreer. The Times story was both thorough and kind, but it did not say why Potter Stewart mattered...
...many other areas of "greater responsibility" must Lown and his crowd collect before they shed their mask and own up to their blatantly political orientation? The clear intent of IPPNW--to discredit and change Western nuclear weapons policy--deserves a thorough exposition and labelling, if not by IPPNW itself, then by concerned observers throughout the West. Responsible discussion of what the West should do to prevent nuclear holocaust is not served by dissembling pseudo-experts like Dr. Bernard Lown...