Secrets and spy ethics in a wary world
Flora Lewis contemplates how intelligence aims to warn and protect, while Washington and Warsaw debate who knew what and when. The piece weighs risks of secret keeping, the politics of martial law, and the moral costs of espionage in a dangerous era.
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Paris
Warsaw
Jerry Urban
Solidarity
Washington
U.S
Urban
Reagan
Poland
Col. Wlodzimierz Kuklinski
Nikita Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Israel
Editorial on Rogers Commission Challenger findings and spaceflight ethics
The Rogers Commission report on the Challenger disaster indicts NASA and Morton Thiokol for safety failures and poor risk management while urging continued space exploration. It calls for leadership shakeups, redesign of boosters and engines, better launch scheduling, and greater astronaut input, balancing ambition with higher standards.
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Rogers Commission
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Morton Thiokol
Commission
William P. Rogers
Reagan
Congress
Rogers
America
Lunch with a New York professional
New York is famed for lunch culture and even offers professional lunch companions. In a hotel bar a New Yorker explains the service, noting clients hire others to join them for meals to avoid appearing unimportant. Rates vary from a quick burger to upscale venues, with lunch included.
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New York
Lunches, luck, and a new career for Lewis Grizzard
In an anecdotal interview, Lewis Grizzard explains how a lunch invitation changed his path from an ad agency worker to a writer. He recalls being fired, offered a lunch by his boss, and choosing a career fueled by long lunches and martinis, with his humor fueling his syndicated columns.
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Brooks Brothers
New Jersey
Letter to the Editor on temple Kali statue and nuclear weapon spending
A letter recalls a 1953 Kali statue in Madurai with exposed hands dismembering a baby and cites 1983 disclosures about Pentagon buying costly cof fee machines and toilet seats. The writer questions current nuclear weapons development and deployment costs and potential global deaths.
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Kali
Madurai
Pentagon
Christian Science Monitor
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Our allies a period of stress in world politics
James Reston argues that upcoming elections threaten to strain alliances and complicate foreign policy. He cites Reagan's policy shifts, European leaders' troubles, and the need for damage control to avoid partisan divides undermining NATO cohesion and global security.
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Washington
U.S
Mexico
Reagan
Mulroney
Libya
Republican Party
Senate
Margaret Thatcher
Britain
United Kingdom
United States
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Flora Lewis
Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini
N.Y. Times News Service
CEN
Chernoby
Ibune
Editorial
Lewis Grizzard
Cowles Syndicate, Inc
King Features Syndicate
Europe
Kohl
West Germany
France
Mitterrand
Chirac
NATO Alliance
Gorbachev
James Reston
N.Y. Times
James
Reston
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