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...South Asian Affairs in the Reagan Administration: "The intelligence was limited, always has been, and still is today. The access to Iraqi officialdom and private citizens was extraordinarily limited." The U.S. had few intelligence assets within Iraq; as one American official says, analysts were reduced to "dealing with a welter of contradictory, fragmentary and incomplete information, and then trying to make sense out of that mess...
...welter of life-or-death cases wends through various state courts, only two outcomes seem relatively clear. The first is that a patchwork of state-level decisions will provide no definite guidelines. The second certainty, in the words of Hennepin's Belzer, is that "there are going to be thousands of cases like this in the future...
...Amid the welter of toll-free 800 numbers, this one certainly stood out. Callers to 1-800-WANT-POT got exactly what they wanted -- $50 envelopes containing one-eighth of an ounce of marijuana delivered by bicycle to Manhattan street corners. The service was allegedly the brainchild of Michael Cesar, 48, a felon who formerly ran a similar service under the name DIAL-A- JOINT. Now Cesar faces serious time in a joint of a different kind. Last week he was arrested by New York City narcotics officers at his Greenwich Village comic-book shop -- where cops on the scene...
...appeal is in part caused by higher subscription costs, imposed while the economy is virtually at a standstill. But a more profound reason is the simple fact that Soviet citizens no longer need to put up with an unappetizing diet of Communist propaganda. Rather, they can turn to a welter of new publications at street kiosks, from the liberal weekly Moscow News and Tema, a newspaper that supports gay and lesbian rights, to the business weekly Commersant and Protestant, a Baptist newspaper...
...comedy and a partner, a lover and a nemesis in May. Everyone at the Compass played for laughs, but of all the hothouse talent there, only Nichols, May and a few others turned out to be playing for keeps. The Compass foundered in conflicting ideologies and ended in a welter of mangled egos and bad feelings. But it pointed the way to a kind of comedic theater that spawned other groups, like the Second City and the Committee, and changed the way America laughs for good...