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...Longest Streak: Harvard, 21 games...
...former National Security Adviser said he had no recollection of Westmoreland's having offered misleadingly hopeful "good news." The exchange was subdued but freighted with drama. This was no memoir, no scholarly retrospective. It was the first testimony, by one of the architects of America's longest and costliest war, in what may prove to be the most celebrated libel case in U.S. history: Westmoreland's $120 million suit against CBS News. After almost three years of crossfire in the court of public opinion, the battle is under way in a court...
...rest of his INF account follows predictable lines. He blasts the Administration again and again for inflexibility, public posturing, insensitivity to the Europeans, lack of expertise, and political infighting. His longest discussion, on the so-called "walk in the woods" initiative undertaken by chief negotiator Paul Nitze, ends with a fizzle. This informal proposal, worked out exclusively between Nitze and his opposite number Yuli Kvitsinsk, would have "traded" deployment of the Pershing lls for a significant reduction of the SS-20s. Talbott describes with withering sarcasm the process by which the Administration repudiated Nitze's action, seeming...
Bush got himself in trouble by attempting to take credit for supporting civil rights measures that the Administration had at first opposed. President Reagan signed the longest extension of the Voting Rights Act in its history, Bush pointed out, and his Administration has pursued more civil rights cases than its predecessor "by far." Reagan did indeed sign the voting rights extension, agreed Ferraro, but only after the Senate had passed it by an overwhelming majority over Reagan's initial opposition. As for the civil rights cases, she declared sarcastically, "the reason they enforced them [is] because under...
...second play of the drive, Vignali exploded for his longest scamper of the year--a 25-yard run off a trap. Nine more running plays--and II in all-culminated in White's one-yard sneak for a touchdown just 14 seconds into the second quarter...