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...Inauguration of the nation's 40th President and the long-awaited release of the American hostages in Iran coincided last week, TIME'S Washington bureau was faced with the task of covering two major news events simultaneously. "This was a remarkable week for us," says Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian. "Two Presidents coping with high drama, the absolute splendor of an Inauguration eclipsed, if that is possible, by the tension and thrill of the hostage release." Like a general fighting a war on two fronts, Ajemian had to move quickly to deploy correspondents where they were most needed...
...political prisoners." So saying, seven inmates between the ages of 25 and 32, all of them convicted as Irish Republican terrorists (three for murder), went on a hunger strike on Oct. 27 in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison, 13 miles outside Belfast. As the prisoners passed the 40th day of their fast last week, there were increasing fears that one or more might die. If so, the troubled province could be in for a new round of bloodshed and sectarian violence. In sympathy, three women convicts at a prison in Armagh joined the fast, and thousands of supporters staged...
...immortal-by introducing the creature into one of his Andy Panda cartoons. "Universal Studios told me I ought to have my head examined," he recalls. "They said he's noisy, raucous, obnoxious; he'll never go." They were right, except on that last point. Now in his 40th year, Woody Woodpecker remains a star of screen and television. Children in more than 60 countries recognize his taunting five-note laugh-done for three decades by Gracie Lantz, now 77. "People like Woody because he has no inhibitions," said Lantz at his bird's Manhattan birthday party...
...faith--believe in it, and all you can do is wait for it. But last Tuesday night leaves us little choice; perhaps it is only temporary, but perhaps, too, some future Gibbon will begin his introduction like this: "November 4, 1980, Americans went to the polls to choose their 40th president...
...nation elected Ronald Reagan its 40th president yesterday, casting an elected incumbent out of office for the first time since 1932 and propelling the conservative Republican to an overwhelming victory with support in every corner of the country...