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...defunct Nicaraguan contra rebels. But there is more evidence for a second Post allegation: that a Justice Department prosecutor investigating a bank failure in 1985 was warned off by FBI agents because one of his targets had CIA ties. The House committee, which questioned CIA Director William Webster about the matter in a closed-door session in late October, is expected to announce its findings soon...
...large in scale. Thick darkness and eerie light turn in the sky; the sea heaves, scattered with moon flakes and endowed with a Courbet-like solidity. "My soul, like to a ship in a black storm,/ Is driven, I know not whither" -- Vittoria's dying words in John Webster's Jacobean tragedy The White Devil seem to fit this recurrent dream of Ryder's coastal childhood, the boat scudding in the maw of the waves or becalmed, like a floating coffin, on the expectant water...
Just as ERA was the galvanizing force in 1972, a major impetus for women this year was the Supreme Court's Webster decision in July 1989, which opened the way for states to pass laws restricting abortion. Of the 76 women still in congressional and statewide campaigns after the primaries, only three -- Governor Kay Orr of Nebraska, who was seeking re-election; Joan Finney, running for Governor of Kansas; and Senate candidate M. Jane Brady in Delaware -- did not offer themselves as pro-choice candidates...
...Cheney-Webster message was unmistakable: there may be no way out short of war. But a growing ambivalence pervades the enterprise nonetheless. The "wait a minute" second thoughts echoing on Capitol Hill -- a skittishness in marked contrast to the "let's get him" talk of several weeks ago -- reflects an increasing reluctance among the American public to start shooting...
Assuming even this objection could be overridden, a simple trade of the kind implied by Sultan's statement would probably be insufficient for the reason CIA Director Webster stated: Saddam's weapons. "We are ready for a long-term U.S. or U.N. presence in our country," says a Kuwaiti aide to the exiled Emir, "but we wouldn't deal on the islands or the oil unless Iraq's war- fighting capacities are crippled. If Saddam gets something from us that he can portray as a victory, then the rest of the world is entitled to an even greater and longer...