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CIA officials also began pressing proposals to use their ties with the Northern Alliance to get American agents on the ground in Afghanistan for an extended period, setting up their own base for covert intelligence collection and activity in the Panjshir Valley and lessening reliance on foreign proxies."
In our report we have shown how agents in Phoenix, Minneapolis, and New York displayed initiative in pressing their investigations.
The fish, mainly pike, roach, and tench, died when the residue of grapes from the last pressing was washed into the river by heavy rains last week.
In addition, as the NEA itself concedes, a more pressing constitutional question would arise if government funding resulted in the imposition of a disproportionate burden calculated to drive "certain ideas or viewpoints from the marketplace."
An inside story at the WP reminds just how pressing this issue is with a report that research scientists are working on a palm-sized DNA lab that cops could use on blood, saliva or semen at a fresh crime scene to clear or implicate suspects within minutes.