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...charges, first leveled in a 1986 Wall Street Journal article, persist today. Two lobbyists, who insist on anonymity because they fear losing access to D'Amato, have told TIME that D'Amato staff members solicited contributions from them this year during conversations about pending legislation. "It's raw; it's distasteful," one of the lobbyists says. "Al's guys reach through the phone and say, 'We're helping you, and you have to help us.'" In a recent survey of Washington lobbyists, Knight-Ridder Newspapers reported that three lobbyists complained that D'Amato sought contributions from them while they...
...everybody. But orthodox feminists will be driven nuts by Drenka the Insatiable, and the Japanese will be offended by Mickey's ravings against a defeated enemy's celebrated prosperity. "In his grave, Franklin Roosevelt is spinning like an atomic dreydl," he cries in a two-page riff about raw fish and "the Land of the Rising Nikkei Average...
...itself over to one of war's more oddly languorous moments. The streets were deserted, apart from scattered corpses and rescue vehicles scavenging about like small birds. Abandoned by the losers, as yet unoccupied by the winners, the city seemed lost in its pause, as if reflecting on the raw brutality with which the victors had smitten the vanquished. "Almost the only people remaining," said Major Alan Balfour, a U.N. spokesman, "were the dead and dying...
...toward Midway Island was severely defeated and turned back. In October 1944 the Imperial Navy was routed in Leyte Gulf in the Philippines, and Japan was virtually eliminated as a sea power. By July 1945 it was cut off from its territory in Southeast and East Asia, losing the raw materials it had gone to war for. The empire in June had just 4,000 aircraft, with only 800 operational. The U.S. had 22,000 at its disposal...
...said, hoping his sorrowful display would convince all 12 jurors -- some of whom have expressed doubts -- that Smith deserves the death penalty. It may have. "Whereas Susan has been accused of playing to people emotionally -- of turning on and off her tears -- what came from David today was true, raw feeling," says TIME's Lisa Towle. "It was so poignant and such a hard act to follow that the defense did not even attempt to cross-examine him." Towle says Smith makes his most effective point -- that Susan, rather than their sons, has been inappropriately pegged as the victim...