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After the Prime Minister had arrived. Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci decided to send Fraser a present, and he sent a messenger over with the package. Quite unintentionally, the Wadsworth office forgot the gift was coming, so that when the gift-bearer arrived holdings a non-descript package and asked to see Fraser, the secret service men hired for the Prime Minister jumped at the innocent deliveryman and tore open the package before it reached the head of state...
...victory in West Germany's March 6 national elections. Before discussing affairs of state, the two leaders engaged in amiable small talk about such things as the heavy rains in California and the recent visit to the U.S. of Queen Elizabeth II. But the Chancellor was also the bearer of a serious message to the President. Kohl's friendly advice: the U.S. and its West European allies may once again be on a collision course over how to deal with the Soviets...
...solution for the Democratic standard-bearer in 1984 is not to foreclose his bargaining position That means focusing on more than arms control issues--for if the nuclear dilemma is the question of our generation, it is not one that will be solved satisfactorily by allowing it to mesmerize politicians to the detriment of other American concerns...
...foreign travel controversy aroused only anger. Said a bank employee in Paris: "The government is making us pay for its mistakes." Frenchmen were particularly goaded by the fact that they will have to carry a carnet de change, a kind of financial passport complete with a photograph of the bearer, as they pass across the national frontier. Said the usually pro-Socialist newspaper Le Monde: "France is copying the East bloc countries. On the pretext of saving foreign currency, it is setting up a gigantic control system in order to hinder the freedom to come...
...Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus, of which Heckler had been a founding member, threw its support behind McCarthy. In fact, none of the major women's organizations backed Heckler--a bit of a blow to a woman who always tried to present herself as a feminist standard bearer. Resnek says of his experience during the 1982 campaign. "There I was trying to sensitize myself to women's issues, working for a real live woman boss, and women hated...