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...State Department seems to be unaware of the scope of the illicit deals. "We have heard these rumors of U.S.-supplied restricted military items getting to Iran for years," says Barbara Schell, the desk officer responsible for Iran, "but there is no proof." American diplomats insist that they do not secretly condone the shipment of arms to either of the belligerents in the three-year-old Iran-Iraq...
...compete in dragon-boat races, attend temple fairs and visit relatives on both sides. This year the ebbing of the great river brought instead an increase in tensions between the two countries. Vietnamese troops stationed in Laos sporadically opened fire on Thai fishermen, causing four deaths. The Thais not only shot back but lodged sharp protests with the Laotian government over the Vietnamese military presence. Underlying the hostilities, though, is a less visible effort by Thailand to encourage a three-year-old attempt by the Laotian government to achieve a more moderate form of socialism and one independent of Viet...
...water seepage problem resulting in structural flaws caused serious damage--including buckling floors to portions of the three-year-old Radcliffe Quad gym Part of the facility was reopened in December. The other portions are still closed...
...sheer vastness and excess, Bob Hope's three-year-old, 25,000-sq.-ft. home in Palm Springs, Calif., is not the gesture of an old man content to dwell quietly among yesterday's memories. Climbing the cascade of black marble stairs under the house's wide-vaulting arch, a visitor might be on some gigantic Academy Awards set, a gleaming desert mirage. Actually, the place is a kind of hotel. Even when the owner is on the road, friends check in for a few days. On this afternoon, however, the sound of Crosby-esque bubabooing from...
...Femaleness can be an advantage," she says. "A male opponent may ease up for fear of swinging the jury to sympathy for you. And I think women may have a better sensitivity to jurors." Now established in her own three-year-old, four-partner firm, she notes, "Until recently, women haven't had role models in the law. How do I act? What do I wear? Women have to learn to be tough, to be noticed but not intrusive...