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...three jet fighters and a lone helicopter flew overhead, some 300 troops backed by armored cars fanned out through the streets of La Paz last week. Another coup in a country that has seen 189 governments overthrown since its founding in 1825? Not this time. The sweep was ordered by President Hernan Siles Suazo as a twelve-day-old general strike, which had already crippled transport and commerce, threatened to push the nation into anarchy. Declared Siles: "Tolerance and patience have a limit...
...Minorties are not fairly represented in the entire democratic process," said Michael Lone of Roxbury's 12th Ward. He called on the platform committee to "make certain Third World people are an intricate part of the democratic process...
Gretzky fairly boasts that he "never touches a stick" in the off-season, but does not account for the solid summer he spent rounding up the children of Brantford to practice breakaways on lone goalies in an indoor ice rink, using tennis balls. "I'm still not that good on breakaways, but I'm four times better than I used to be." The truth is, shinny games tempt him. Meanwhile Bird is embarrassed to admit, "Last summer I caught myself shooting around for five hours. I thought, 'What's wrong with me?' It's like I get this guilty feeling...
...centralizes paper flow, assigns staff authority meticulously--and thus could spot any big leaker. Benign terror reigns in the back corridors. Information is sorted, compressed, confined. "I'm the small end of the funnel," Regan explains pointedly. The policy struggle around the President has been diminished. Regan is the lone briefer on many issues. He has urged more frequent news conferences for the President, mostly to keep him current and sharp. Regan loves the line, "If we let Regan be Regan, Reagan will be Reagan...
...lone dissenter, Justice William Rehnquist, criticized the decision as "too broad," giving poor defendants what amounts to a new "defense advocate." An indigent may be entitled "to an independent psychiatric evaluation," wrote Rehnquist, but "not to a defense consultant." Kamisar found Rehnquist's dissent "the surprising thing about this case. He could have concurred but said the right should be limited to capital cases or to cases when a showing of psychiatric need has been made. But he dissented instead." Chided Kamisar: "He's determined to show he's the Clint Eastwood of the Supreme Court...