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Neil Kinnock, opposition leader of the British Parliament, plans to convince tonight's audience at the Institute of Politics (IOP) that total elimination of England's nuclear arsenal and withdrawal of U.S. nuclear forces from great Britain would not threaten the security of Europe...
...unraveling Iranian fiasco is the latest in a string of controversies that have called into question the Administration's credibility and competence in foreign affairs. They threaten to dissipate six years of aggressive effort by Reagan to strengthen America's standing in the world. Among the other setbacks to credibility: the disingenuous explanations of the shady connections between the White House and the private network run by former CIA personnel supplying aid to the contras fighting in Nicaragua, the campaign of "disinformation" against Libya proposed by the National Security Council, and Reagan's befuddled and dubious accounts of what...
Disclosures that a Harvard professor last year accepted money from the Central Intelligence Agency without notifying the University opened up a Pandora's Box of issues surrounding government-funded research. University professors and administrators across the country began questioning whether the federal government's ties with scholars threaten academic integrity...
...into the fray. In the race for county commissioner in Lawrence, Kans., Agnes T. Frog, a frog, won 27.4% of the votes in a valiant effort to unseat In- cumbent Nancy Hiebert. Agnes was a write-in candidate sponsored by opponents of a proposed highway that, they contend, would threaten the habitat of the northern crawfish frog. Despite the loss, Agnes' spokesman, John Simmons, a herpetologist (one who studies amphibians), was practically jumping up and down at her showing: "Agnes leapt into the contest with all four feet. The frognosis was good when we took a tad poll...
...broadly. The Arab states, hostage to Syria and its unique style of diplomacy, cannot formulate a policy to confront their two big challenges: the Arab-Israeli conflict and Iraq-Iran war. Indeed for many, including the oil-rich Arab states of the Gulf, it is the latter which directly threaten them and has top priority. To some that may seem a good thing. But the Arab-Israeli conflict has a peculiar tenacity. If the results of the Gulf war were to radicalize the region, that would undermine the Arab moderates, reinforcing the stalemate in the Arab-Israeli arena and perhaps...