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...Monimbo, Moss and de Borchgrave...
...Kenneth Moss, a staff member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where the resolution is being reviewed, yesterday described the resolution, like the "Afghanistan Freedom Day" resolution, as "symbolic" and "restorative of the concern of the U.S. over human rights...
Both Kospas and Moss cited the minimal effect of such resolutions on actual Soviet policy, but emphasized their importance in maintaining public pressure on the U.S. administration as well as the Soviet Union...
...limited. Limit poker requires knowing the odds, playing tightly and chiseling away at whatever optimists wander into the game. In no-limit, as one poker carnivore tells Alvarez, "the target comes alive and shoots back at you." Shooting back, in one legendary five-month game years ago between Johnny Moss and Nick the Greek, came down to a five-card stud hand in which Moss, with a pair of nines, thought he had the Greek locked. Moss figured his opponent for a low pair and discounted his fifth card as no help. He bet everything he had. As Alvarez writes...
...Moss was 74 when Alvarez met him in 1981, an old man "secure in his fame and his investments, as remorseless now as he was then, the kind of character that John Wayne was fond of portraying-true grit without forgiveness, to be admired, but from a safe distance." Moss had come to Las Vegas to play in the World Series of Poker, at Binion's Horse shoe Casino. Binion's is the no-limit joint, famous for accepting a $777,000 bet in 1980 from a man who walked in with a suitcase full of cash, rolled...