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...described François-Poncet's talks with Secretary of State Haig and Reagan as chaleureuses re-trouvailles (warm rediscoveries) of friendship. Relations between Washington and Paris cooled during the Carter years, and particularly so after President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing proved notably slow and mild in condemning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...truly mind-boggling to step back and look dispassionately at America's marijuana policy over the past fifty years. We have wasted billions of dollars, polarized the nation, damaged thousands of lives, and defined millions of respectable people as criminals, all over a mild intoxicant that every serious study has pronounced less harmful than beer. It is difficult to imagine how we, or indeed our worst enemies could have developed a more wrong-headed policy...Our marijuana policy has become a domestic Vietnam, a national disgrace. If it weren't so tragic, it would be hilarious...
DIED. Bruce Austin Fraser, 93, deceptively mild-mannered admiral who served from 1948 to 1951 as Britain's First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, after having distinguished himself in World War II through exploits like commanding the force that sank the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst off Norway in 1943; in London...
...sure. Sorry Garry. I'm going with Team C." Mild applause...
...than Jimmy Carter, whose final days as President and first days as a returned citizen of Plains squeezed him through an emotional wringer. He had known, of course, that some of the hostages who had been released earlier had been verbally abused and psychologically harassed with threats of death?mild treatment compared with the savagery inflicted on many Iranians during the Shah's rule and then later under Khomeini, though unconscionable nonetheless. But during a wrenching visit with the 52 at the U.S. military hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, Carter became appalled at the hostages' descriptions of their ordeal...