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...Senate hearing room. Nine solemn Senators will lean into microphones to direct pointed questions across a massive table at some of the nation's highest officials, including almost certainly the Attorney General, the President's counsel and the President's National Security Adviser. The select group of Senators may go off to the White House to grill the President himself, who has pledged to cooperate, and the questioning may also include his wife Rosalynn. But their most withering inquiries will be aimed at a babble-prone, 43-year-old country boy who would be unworthy of such...
...bedwetters," but in truth, Democrats had good reason to be nervous. An ABC News-Harris Survey completed early last week showed that the respondents favored a Republican-dominated House of Representatives, 47% to 43%. Maryland Congressman Michael Barnes, who acted as spokesman for the worried congressional group, insisted that his colleagues were not solely bent on self-preservation. Said he: "The prospect of a Reagan presidency is sufficiently appalling that we feel a responsibility to sit down and figure out what we can do to forestall...
...Soviets early on made plain that soapboxes would not be permitted at their party. When an Italian gay rights activist tried to stage a demonstration in Red Square, he was quickly overwhelmed by uniformed police and plainclothes KGB officers. The police also closed in on a group of journalists who were covering the stunt. U.P.I. Bureau Chief John Moody was kneed in the groin and detained for 25 minutes, two French photographers were roughed up and forced to expose their film and an NBC cameraman had his film confiscated...
...trapshooting, was the first champion to have the Olympic flag and hymn used at his ceremony (Italy and a number of other Western European countries chose to participate in Moscow but to protest by using Olympic symbols instead of their own). Tears rose in his eyes afterward when a group of his countrymen draped a green, red and white Italian flag over his shoulders. The Soviet crowd jeered when no national flags were raised after a Swiss, a Frenchman and a Dane finished one-two-three in the 4,000-meter individual pursuit cycling. The winner, Robert Dill-Bundi, shook...
Emotional Rescue is the Stones' latest release; it joins Black and Blue and Some Girls to establish the sound and direction of the band in the '70s. The band has always changed its character when a new guitarist joined the core group of Jagger, Richards, drummer Charlie Watts and bassist Bill Wyman--the oeuvre is most easily divided into the Brian Jones years, the Mick Taylor years, and the Ronnie Wood years. The Taylor years were the best, the time when the Stones established themselves as The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World, and some critics will never...