Word: towers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like to continue in academia or go on to Law School. A Magna Cum Laude degree candidate in the all-honors History and Literature concentration, she readily admits that "for me, my primary commitment was always academics," and feels a strong emotional pull in the direction of the ivory tower...
...current Senate hearings are of only a limited, investigatory scope, and the full repercussions of the Administration's dealings with the Nicaraguan contras and Iranian Shi'ites will not be known until Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh begins handing down indictments. What is clear is that the conclusions of the Tower Commission were wrong. The fault lie not with the President's "management-style" but with the President himself. Ollie North and his band of private and semi-private operatives were not acting as rogue agents but with, at best, an implicit understanding of what they were up to among officials...
...course, universities produce the educated students and the basic research that fuel the economy. Universities such as Harvard, however, can do much more. The activist university must start to enter the scene, venture out past the walls of the ivory tower and tackle the problems--such as illiteracy, a lack of competitiveness and faltering ethical standards--facing the real world. It must place such goals among its top priorities if it is to retain the public trust...
...merely intended to take a flying jaunt around the island. Instead, he headed for Key West Naval Air Station 90 miles away. Picked up by radar, the Cessna attracted the attention of two F-16 fighters, but they allowed Del Pino to pass after clearance from the control tower. Upon landing, the general turned himself over to U.S. military and immigration officials, becoming the highest-ranking officer to defect from Cuba since Fidel Castro's takeover 28 years...
...uncomfortable turn in the spotlight this week is Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, whose role in directing American assistance to the contras was spelled out by Lewis Tambs, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica from July 1985 to January 1987. Tambs repeated what he had previously told the Tower commission: North had asked him to open a southern front against Nicaragua's Sandinistas. The orders came from a three- man "restricted interagency group," chaired by Abrams, that included North and Alan Fiers, chief of the CIA's Central American task force...