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The article discusses the challenges ahead of newly appointed U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to save the democracy in the country. Topics include the respond of Eric Holder, former attorney general of Barack Obama, former President of U.S. about the prosecution of Donald Trump; investigations of the Congressional committees on Rules and Administration and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committees, and Jeffrey Rosen, Barr's successor as acting attorney general.

Reports on the appointment of Samuel R. Pierce as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) during the regime of United States President Ronald Reagan. Pursuit of Pierce of an ambitious housing agenda; Proposal to teach construction methods to the Soviets to forge the foreign relations of the two countries; Initiation of bilateral negotiations by HUD with the Soviet Union government.

Focuses on the civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and his capacity to organize boycotts. Distinction between a noble boycott and an old-fashioned shakedown; Career background of Jackson; Discussion on the PUSH campaign of Jackson related to corporate boycotts; Adoption of affirmative action by Jackson in his pursuit of quotas for black companies and professionals who deal with major corporations.

Focuses on the allegations about cocaine-related corruption against Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Lynden Pindling. Role of Pindling in rescuing the country's black majority from the rule by a corrupt white establishment; Evidence developed by the Royal Commission of Investigation against Pindling; Claims made by Pindling about numerous steps his government had taken to cooperate with the U.S. drug enforcement agencies; Effort of Pindling to persuade Great Britain and the United States to impose tough sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Reports on the initiative taken by U.S. Senator John Kerry as chairman of the Senate's current select committee on POWs/MIA affairs, to investigate the fate of American POWs and MIA soldiers. Efforts of Kerry to neutralize the influential lobby of POW/MIA activists; Role of professional POW hunter Billy Hendon in the Kerry investigation; Examination of the theories of "live MIA" activists by Kerry's committee; Myths spawned by the debate over spy satellite photography in Kerry's investigation; Factors that lead Kerry to conclude that all Vietnam-era MIA's are dead.

Discusses how United States President George Bush' government helped Iraq president Saddam Hussein before diplomatic relations between the countries ended. Financial aid provided by the United States to Iraq; View that the State Department and the National Security Council encouraged American companies to sell dual-use technology to Saddam that helped advance his intercontinental missile plans; Allegations that the U.S. government under the administrations of former president Ronald Reagan and Bush fed Iraq with U.S. intelligence secrets; Criticism against the Bush government for not acting immediately over Hussein's threats against his neighbor countries.

Profiles Orrin Hatch, a Republican Senator from Utah. Background information on Hatch; Key developments in Hatch's career as a legislator and politician; Predilections.

Focuses on the criminal investigations being conducted by U.S. federal prosecutors on businessman Michael Milken, financial wizard, billionaire philanthropist and pioneer of the junk bond industry. Commitment of Milken to causes such as Jewish scholarship, minority business development and handicapped and deprived children; Transformation of Milken's attitude to publicity.

Focuses on the academic achievements and career options made by the sons of U.S. President George Bush. Profile on the sons of Bush including, George Walker Bush and George Sr. and Jeb Bush; Achievements in business and politics; Universities they have attended; Courses and degrees they have taken; Characteristics of the Bush family; Prospects for the establishment of a Bush family political dynasty in the country.

Focuses on some of the political developments in the U.S. Nomination of former Texas Senator John Tower as defense minister; Assessment of the American political discourse; Evaluation of the rumors involving politicians; Coverage of the story by Nina Totenberg, the National Public Radio reporter, about Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg's experimentation with marijuana.

Comments on the political contributions of Eugene C. Pulliam, press magnate and grandfather of Republican Vice Presidential candidate Dan Quayle in the U.S. Campaign of Pulliam for freedom of expression; Theme on the newspapers of Pulliam; Conservative movement initiated by Pulliam; Report that Pulliam's Indianapolis papers were among the first media outlets to track down the story of his National Guard recruitment.

Presents information about politics and government in the U.S. Allegations linking Vice President George Bush's office to a giant guns and drugs plot in Central America; Disclosure about U.S. President Ronald Reagan administration's secret effort to support the Nicaraguan contras by the ABC television network; Disclosures by the ABC being effectively ignored by other media; Intention of U.S. Senator John Kerry, head of a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee, in investigating the connection between contras and drugs; Reaction of Bush over the issue.

Comments on the issues related to the financial crisis of PTL Corp. television ministry in the U.S. Efforts of president Jerry Nims to rescue the company from bankruptcy; Consideration of corruption as the main cause of the financial crisis of the company; Court investigation of Jessica Hahn regarding the payment she received to keep silent about her sexual tryst with Jim Bakker.

The article discusses religious leader Shri Chandra Swamiji Maharaj's involvement in deals to swap arms for hostages set up by National Security Council (NSC) aide Oliver North. Chandra served as spiritual adviser to arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi who financed the arms deals. Chandra was introduced to many government officials by lawyer Steve Martindale and become an adviser to the Sultan of Brunei.

Focuses on the issues related to the leakage of confidential government information in the U.S. Reference to William Casey as a world-class secret information leaker in the U.S.; Statement that the drive to curb leaks of government information has been a fundamental goal of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's governance; Disclosure of Casey as a world-class leaker suggests that the crusade to stanch the hemorrhage of American intelligence secrets is just another Reaganite hypocrisy.

Focuses on the false statements cited by U.S. President Ronald Reagan regarding the Iranamok scandal. Ignorance of Reagan about how the Nicaraguan counterrevolutionaries were sustained; Information that the Reagan administration turned to lying because one of its central propaganda themes is that a principal Threat to Freedom is the "disinformation" apparatus of the Soviet Union Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti.

Discusses the controversy regarding the utilization of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's name and signature for the political objectives of a group headed by Carl Channell. Information on the presidential autopen mechanical device being used at the White House; Relations between President Reagan and the fund-raising organization of Channell; Investigations into the operations of Channell's political group; Complaints against alleged abuses of the president's signature; Opinion that the autopen put the seal on one of the most bizarre political alliances to surface during the Reagan era.

Focuses on the memorandum from Saudi arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi to former national security adviser Robert McFarlane, regarding the arms deal of the U.S. with Iran for the exchange of hostages. Revelation of the character of Khashoggi; Reasons for which he was virtually disowned by both the American and Saudi governments; Proposals of Khashoggi to solve several American problems in the Middle East, including the hijacking to Beirut of a TWA jet with 39 American passengers, the Iran-Iraq war, the Arab-Israeli dispute; Theories about world peace presented in the memorandum.

Focuses on the career of Walter C. Lenahan, former deputy assistant secretary of commerce for clothing and textiles in the U.S. Claim that in the international trade wars, Lenahan was a frontline commander for the American rag trade; Information that as the day-to-day boss of the U.S. quota system, Lenahan helped make esoteric policy decisions that could have cost foreign or companies thousands of dollars in disrupted business; Responsibility of Lenahan for dealing with complaints from the ungrateful beneficiaries of the quota systems.

Focuses on several issues related to the passing of the farm bill amidst the recent Australian meat scandal in which American inspectors discovered horsemeat in a shipment of Australian beef sent to the United States. View that U.S. cattle growers are benefited from the confluence of the scandal and the Congressional debate on the farm bill; Views of Senators John Melcher and Lloyd Bentsen on the farm bill; Report that the government was opposed to the Melcher amendment, but it felt to extract a compromise from Melcher before he introduced the bill; Information on the government's concerted lobbying campaign to try to block the Melcher amendment's passage through the House.

Focuses on the economic policies of the U.S. government under U.S. President Ronald Reagan which is groping for prosperity through deregulation. Citation of sweat-shop referred as establishments that inhabit the undergrowth of the U.S. garment industry as one of the country's latest enthusiasms; Mention of some of the frequently flouted laws to prevent child exploitation that are the federal child labor, minimum wage and 40-hour week laws.

Focuses on several legislative bills considered in the U.S. Congress before the Christmas. Issue of a compulsory federal safety standard for the machines for manufacturers of lawn mowers set by the Consumer Product Safety Commission; Discussion about a controversial tax ruling of the Supreme court about the power tools that valuation of warehouse inventories could not be depreciated for tax reasons unless the stock has been actually sold; Argument for tariff on the gasohol gambit which involved an amendment; Attempts to protect American companies and jobs from the proverbial cheap foreign imports.

The article reports on the plans of the Soviet Union to control world's supply of key strategic minerals which was revealed by the Soviet defector Igor Glasgolev as of December 20, 1980. The details of the Soviet strategy to capture world strategic mineral resources, the information on dependency of the U.S. on foreign countries for mineral supplies and the reaction of U.S. politicians to the theory that the Soviets are planning to block supply of strategic minerals to the U.S. are presented.

Discusses the impact to Bill Clinton's U.S. presidential campaign of an incident involving his mother, nurse Virginia Dwire Kelly in Arkansas in 1981. Death of teenager Susie Deer at a hospital where Kelly was working in 1981; Failure of Kelly to put the breathing tube to Deer's mouth, resulting in suffocation and death; Investigation of Kelly's performance as a nurse; State medical examiner Fahmy Malak's ruling of homicide against Billy Ray Washington, the assailant of Deer; Debate on whether Clinton, who was a lawyer at the time of incident, intervened in the case.

Focuses on the role of U.S. President George Bush to stop Iraq from developing nuclear weapons. Failure of U.S. government agencies to stop exports of nuclear power equipment and supplies to Iraq; Responsibility of the Department of Energy for the design, manufacture and control of the U.S. nuclear weapons; Report that the U.S. Commerce Department documents openly soliciting American to military use; Information that the Iraqis seemed to have launched a particularly intense effort to acquire the sophisticated devices necessary to detonate a nuclear bomb.

Comments on the results of a U.S. operation aimed at arresting cocaine money launderers, the coup de grace of which was to be the arrest of suspected drug trafficker and Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. Eventual indictment of Noriega for drug trafficking charges even as the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency actually thanked him earlier for his support in the war on drugs; Implications on international relations and anti-drug policies.

Focuses on the progress made by the government in the war against drug traffickers in the Bahamas, under the intense pressure from American law enforcement agencies. Evidence of corruption produced by a Royal Commission of Investigation set up by Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling; Discussion of public criticism from the U.S. faced by Pindling; Testimony of several witnesses at the trial of Carlos Lehder, renegade member of the Medellin cocaine cartel under oath about bribe payments to Pindling; Comparison of political doctrines of Pindling and U.S. clergyman Jesse Jackson.

Focuses on the influence of U.S. Military General Claude Raymond on the government in Haiti. Rumors about the role Raymond or his family played in the election day massacre; Revelation that an inquiry commission set up by Haiti's military government to investigate the death squad killings had questioned him; Refusal of Haitian army to supply protection for the independent electoral council.

Focuses on the alleged rape of a woman named Jessica Hahn by television evangelist Jim Bakker in the U.S. Doubt regarding virginity of Hahn before her rape; Role played by media in investigation of the true identity of Hahn; Conflict between Hahn and publisher Bob Guccione, who wanted to publish her story; Views of journalist Robert Scheer about the rape case.

Focuses on the controversy about the book "Spycatcher," by Peter Wright. Information on Military Intelligence-5, Great Britain's sneaky and sinister domestic counterintelligence service; Public suspicion of the intelligence service; Expertise of the author in communications; Intention of the author to publish his memoirs in Australia to avoid British litigation.

Discusses how the nationalist passions of Canadian Sikhs seems to grow in proportion to the distance from their homeland. Threat represented by the Sikh militants in Vancouver, British Columbia; Reputation earned by Sikhs as Canada's most fractious minority; View of the Indian government on the intra-communal warfare among Canadian Sikhs that began to take place in the 1980s; Efforts of the Indian government to extradite a Sikh priest named Talwinder Singh Parmar for the murder of two policemen.

Presents information on the foreign policy of Great Britain. Efforts of British diplomats to steer the U.S. towards Great Britain's side in the Falkland War; Role of monarchy in the establishment of diplomacy to its maximum effect, Relations of Great Britain with the U.S.; Features of the appeasement policy formulated by the Foreign Office; Information that the White House promised a federal action to curb some states' "unitary taxation" practices, which sought to tax the worldwide income of British multinational companies.

Presents an account of treatment given by authorities of the U.S. to rival propaganda delegations of Loyalists and Irish Republican Army (IRA) members. Arrests of IRA members namely Owen Carron and a publicist Danny Morrison, by immigration inspectors of the U.S., on criminal charges; Treatment of the Loyalists delegation headed by wife of Ian Paisley; Purpose of the Loyalist Delegation to convince Americans to stop funding the IRA; Attitude of the American public towards the speech of Reverend Ian Paisley at the Press Club; Criticism of Paisley in American newspapers; Statement that IRA was somewhat more successful in rallying its American supporters and in obtaining favorable notice by the media; Failure of both delegations to achieve their purpose.

Focuses on a weekly tabloid "The Spotlight," published by an ultra-right-wing organization called the Liberty Lobby. Claim by the paper to report the news the other papers miss and to uncover the conspiracies the other papers dare not expose; Fundamental editorial obsession of the Spot light which is with the "Zionists" and "dual loyalist" friends of Israel who conspire to take over the US government and to propagate the malicious fiction that the Nazis killed six million Jews; Information that in recent months, the Spotlight seems to have become a veritable cheering section for the "Institute for Historical Review" in Torrance.

Focuses on efforts of the U.S. President Ronald Reagan's administration to abolish the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Endeavor by Representative Phil Gramm, Reagan's tame conservative Democrat, to get the CPSC incorporated into the Commerce Department; Proposal by James Broyhill regarding an amendment to CPSC's reauthorization bill; Discussion over features of the Broyhill's amendment; Description of the report "Standards and Certification," by Federal Trade Commission; Revealment that the furniture industry supported the Broyhill amendment.

Focuses on the academic and career backgrounds of Dan Quayle, vice presidential candidate for the 1988 U.S. election. University where he obtained his college degree; Leadership qualities in Quayle; Social skills he acquired in the Indiana National Guard; His interest in golf.