Conyers expressed concern that this silence was due to the CIA's connections to these military officers dating back to the creation of the Haitian Intelligence service known as SIN, as Alan Nairn's research has shown: " We have turned a very deaf ear to what is obviously a moving force ... it leads you to wonder if our silence is because we knew this was going on and of our complicity in drug activity ..." Nairn in particular alleged that the CIA's connections to these drug traffickers in the junta not only dated to the creation of SIN, but were ongoing during and after the coup.

In September 2007, Nairn's Chief of Staff, Dr Peter Phelps, engaged in a heated verbal exchange with the Labor Party candidate for Eden-Monaro, Mike Kelly at a forum on the Iraq War in Queanbeyan, New South Wales.

More recently, it has been a central feature of numerous television idents, notably Martin Lambie Nairn's first ident for the British Channel 4 television network in use from 1982.

An Indonesian Military spokesperson told the Jakarta Globe that the military is considering legal actions against Nairn's publication.

An anthology of NLR articles, The Break-Up of Britain ( 1977, revised 1982 ) is the best known of Nairn's books on the nationalism theme.

He claims, too, that his political convictions are simply those which are called `` Revolution Principles '' and which are accepted by moderate men in both parties.

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

Since the recognition of Israel as a nation state, claims are made in many cases which identify the claimant as a member of the new body politic.

claims are properly disposed of according to norms common to all parties.

The Commission shall notify all claimants of the approval or denial of their claims, stating the reasons and grounds therefor, and if approved, shall notify such claimants of the amount for which such claims are approved.

We have concluded that petitioner's claims are controlled by the rationale of Gonzales v. United States, 348 U.S. 407 ( 1955 ), and United States v. Nugent, 346 U.S. 1 ( 1953 ), and therefore affirm the judgment.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

The theory claims to show by analysis that when we say, `` That is good '', we do not mean to assert a character of the subject of which we are thinking.

( `` Artists are always at a new frontier '', she claims.

The term altruism may also refer to an ethical doctrine that claims that individuals are morally obliged to benefit others.

Because constitutional claims are of great magnitude, appellate courts might be more lenient to review the claim even if it was not preserved.

Agnosticism is the view that the truth values of certain claims — especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims — are unknown and ( so far as can be judged ) unknowable.

However, according to private tour operators and other individuals familiar with the country ’ s tourism industry, government claims that hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists visit Armenia each year are inflated.

Skeptics claim that many of the allegedly hominin-like features seen in the Ardipithecus material are found elsewhere among living and fossil primates, and that claims about its hominin status and locomotor habits are not adequately supported by the available evidence.

When talking about those who have made " shipwreck " of their faith ( 1 Tim 1: 19 ), Wesley claims that " not one, or a hundred only, but I am persuaded, several thousands ... innumerable are the instances ... of those who had fallen but now stand upright.

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

* 1983 – The German magazine Der Stern claims that the " Hitler Diaries " had been found in wreckage in East Germany ; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.

If a ) testimonies conflict one another, b ) there are a small number of witnesses, c ) the speaker has no integrity, d ) the speaker is overly hesitant or bold, or e ) the speaker is known to have motives for lying, then the epistemologist has reason to be skeptical of the speaker's claims.

Many of the claims regarding the efficacy of alternative medicines are controversial.

The Austrian Supreme Court, in a recent judgment, has confirmed the legal admissibility of these lawsuits under the condition that all claims are essentially based on the same grounds.

As of, a total of confirmed exoplanets are listed in the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, including a few that were confirmations of controversial claims from the late 1980s.

The Treaty of Ryswick in 1697 confirmed French sovereignty over Alsace, yet rejected its claims to Luxembourg.

The three hundred Western bishops who remained, confirmed the previous decisions of the Roman synod ; and by its 3rd, 4th, and 5th decrees relating to the rights of revision claimed by Julius, the council of Sardica perceptibly helped forward the claims of the Bishop of Rome.

Jordan ceded its West Bank claims to the PLO in November 1988, later confirmed by the Israel – Jordan Treaty of Peace of 1994.

The boundary with Greece was confirmed by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, which resolved persistent boundary and territorial claims involving areas in Thrace and provided for a population exchange ( see: War of Independence ).

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kohl confirmed that historically German territories east of the Oder-Neisse line were definitively part of the Republic of Poland, thereby finally ending the West German territorial claims.

In 1993, Kohl confirmed, in a treaty with the Czech Republic, that Germany would no longer bring forward territorial claims as to the pre-1945 ethnic German so-called Sudetenland.

Partly his reasons were sound scholarly ones — the Masoretic text claims an unbroken history of careful transcription stretching back centuries — but his choice was confirmed for him, because it placed Creation exactly four thousand years before 4 BC, the generally accepted date for the birth of Christ ; moreover, he calculated, Solomon's temple was completed in the year 3000 from creation, so that there were exactly 1000 years from the temple to Christ, who was the fulfilment of the Temple .< ref > James Barr, Biblical Chronology: Legend Or Science?

Only about the following five names of sons can be confirmed from contemporary skaldic poems ( with saga claims in parenthesis ), while the full number of sons remains unknown:

Sack expressed surprise at criticisms denying the accuracy of his claims, asserting that the main points have been repeatedly confirmed by others, the TV programme 60 Minutes and the New York Times among them.

According to Blankenship and Tobias, cameras lowered down the shaft into a cave below recorded the presence of some chests, human remains, wooden cribbing and tools ; however, the images were unclear, and none of these claims have been independently confirmed.

He has changed the date of the incident, the location of the incident, the number of missiles involved, the time of the incident, the order of events, the details of telephone calls made both during and after the incident, the number as well as the names of the individuals who either initiated or participated in the communication of those details ( both during and after the incident ), both the personal and official responses to the incident, as well as the complete record of USAF personnel who have allegedly confirmed the claims he has made.

In the 19th century, long after the demise of the other branches, the family claimed name and title of Counts Báthory, since their ancestor Michael had never consented to the sale conducted by his brothers, and in 1852 the Russian government confirmed the legitimacy of their claims.

However, these claims cannot be confirmed with certainty.

King William wanted to hold Hastings for himself for strategic reasons and ignored the problem until 1085, when he confirmed their Steyning claims but swapped the Hastings claim for land in the manor of Bury ( near Pulborough in Sussex ).

The United States contended that the Bay Islands were not the " dependencies " of Belize, which were the small neighboring islands mentioned in the same treaties, and nothing else ; that the excepted " settlement " was the British-Honduras of definite extent and narrow purpose recognized in British treaties with Spain ; that the United States had not confirmed by recognition the large, indefinite and offensive claims whose dangers the treaty was primarily designed to lessen ; and that, as to the Mosquito Coast, the treaty was retrospective, and mutual in the rigor of its requirements.

Sirkin confirmed the claims made in Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death that eyewitnesses who had come forward with information on the incident had been tortured and killed, and stated that a FOIA document showed that the " U. S. government and, apparently, intelligence agency – it's a three-letter word that ’ s redacted of an intelligence branch of the U. S. government in the FOIA – they knew and reported that eyewitnesses to this massacre had been killed and tortured.

Stanley Karnow claims he confirmed this figure in Hanoi in 1981.

While there are claims that anabolic steroid abusers are at greater risk ( theorized to be due to insulin and IGF exacerbation ), the only evidence that has been confirmed is that anabolic steroid users are more likely to have hepatocellular adenomas ( a benign form of HCC ) transform into the more dangerous hepatocellular carcinoma.

From Frederick III's perspective, stagnation in status meant loss of power, and this perspective seemed to be confirmed when the European royals ignored Brandenburg-Prussia's claims in the Treaty of Rijswijk ( 1697 ).

In New Mexico, only six percent of all claims by Hispanics were confirmed by the Claims Court.

After the 1890 British Ultimatum, colonial treaties with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( one signed in August 1890 that defined their African borders along the Zambezi and Congo rivers and another signed on 14 October 1899, that confirmed colonial treaties of the 17th century ) stabilised the situation in Africa, ending Portuguese claims of sovereignty on the Pink Map.

Thus, he claims in his memoirs that the USSR had become " a raw material appendage to Bulgaria ," something obliquely confirmed by Gorbachev when he wrote in his memoirs that " Bulgaria was a country which had lived beyond its means for a long time.