Word: unclearly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exact extent of U.S. involvement with the contras remains unclear. One option paper presented by the CIA to the National Security Council in November 1981 projected expenditures of $19.95 million to support a 500-man force. It is unknown what was eventually approved, but the strength of the contras has grown impressively in recent months. A U.S. intelligence source in Honduras estimates that there are now about 200 CIA personnel in Honduras, four times as many as previously reported. Biweekly flights from Panama bring in rifles, machine guns, mortars and grenade launchers. The contras themselves have grown in number, from...
Right now it is unclear what the resolution of the Med School audit will be. The audit report now is in Washington in the hands of Henry Kirschenmann, an HHS deputy assistant. Through an aide, Kirschenmann has refused comment on the eventual deposition of the case, though both Parigian and Harvard officials say there will be a period of negotiations between the government and Harvard over how much money will have to be paid back...
...finally to a regional party committee membership. On his way up the bureaucratic ladder, he earned a degree in engineering. Somehow he escaped the great purges of 1937-38 that sent tens of thousands of party officials to their deaths. Whether he actively took part in those purges is unclear. Harvard Sovietologist Adam Ulam concludes that Brezhnev was "clever as well as lucky; at a time when people in the party hierarchy were being liquidated right and left, he not only survived but prospered...
Cosell must have been there to signify television. Ali was definitely the symbol of fighters who do not retire. What Singer Wayne Newton represented was unclear, perhaps Las Vegas. "It's a great thrill to be here tonight," Newton said, bouncing into the ring, resisting the impulse to undo his tie. Maybe Newton's part had to do with something Leonard once said...
Sullivan said it was unclear whether Nixon used the amendment in reaching his decision, but he added that the ruling gives it "a retroactive effect...