Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet KGB and other spy agencies. But publicity makes it difficult for these or other CIA agents to maintain valuable contacts with businessmen, scholars, journalists and other sources. As serious is the possibility of the magazine's incorrectly identifying an agent. Said one senior CIA official: "Whether or not the people they mention are with the agency, they've done these people great harm." Added CIA Director Stansfield Turner: "I also wonder where they get their money. It would help if those who worry about CIA activities would direct the same attention to those who work so hard...
...street and sanitation services, and caused a low-and middle-income housing crisis, accompanied by a large tax hike, that has forced many workers off the island. Last year there were frequent power shortages and sewer-pipe breaks. How well the island weathers the impending storm will depend on whether it can grow while preserving its unique and eccentric flavor, and whether it can maintain its tenuous balance between seediness and wealth...
...lawyers can ask the Supreme Court to review the case for possible legal errors. The family of the former Prime Minister may also appeal to Zia for executive clemency. Domestic political considerations are likely to weigh more heavily than foreign opinion as Zia makes his final decision on whether or not to apply a stiff dose of Islamic justice and carry out his threat to "hang the blighter...
...city has many more prosperous young black lawyers, doctors and bankers than outspokenly bigoted whites, although it is too soon to see whether these middle class blacks, riding in on a wave of affirmative action hirings, are more than tokens. They are certainly not representative of the blacks who are clustered in small homes and housing projects in East Winston. There are conservative whites in wealthier sections of the city, and on nearby small farms but, from what I could see, they are more responsive to Howard K. Jarvis and Proposition 13 than to David Duke and the revival...
...Russians can be feted at the White House and the Chinese can eat dinner with the President, certainly a simple country lawyer like me shouldn't have to be concerned whether or not a distinguished young man from Libya can be the guest of a distinguished group of Harvard people," Cooper said...