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...refusal to countenance any form of power sharing between the right-wing government and leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. Said Maryland Congressman Michael Barnes, one of eleven legislators and foreign policy experts who participated in the commission's debates as "senior advisers," though not voting members: "The central thrust of this report is to recommend military solutions for the region and to deny the viability of political ones...
...many other people in Washington, is a racist pig. But surely this description is unfair to the barnyard swine, who, for all their disgusting habits, do not steal food from starving children and then lie to escape responsibility for the resulting sickness and death. That has been the thrust of the Reagan Administration's policy, which Graham seems intent upon seeing continued...
Under a blazing summer sun, the gravediggers thrust their shovels into the hard earth of the cemetery in Rafael Calzada, a village 19 miles south of Buenos Aires. A federal judge watched impassively and policemen stood at a respectful distance as the workers unearthed the remains of 15 bodies and carefully placed them in brown plastic bags. The hands of all but one of the corpses had been cut off, apparently to thwart later identification...
Strangely, you failed to report that CBS News stands by the substance of the broadcast. And though your reporter had been briefed by me and others about material proving the thrust of the broadcast, you failed to report any of it. I look forward to the day, after the litigation is over, when Americans who did not see the broadcast the first time around will have the opportunity to view it and determine for themselves whether charges of corrupt intelligence practices leveled not by us, but by former high-ranking intelligence officers from the military and the CIA, were...
...house, to succeed him. In 1958 he produced a brilliant debut collection that introduced an A-line dress called the trapeze. It was an instantaneous success. The French, who invented the modern concept of a couturier, celebrated in the street. The boy wonder, tall, handsome and painfully shy, was thrust out on the balcony of the House of Dior to acknowledge the cheers...