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...military authorities, the U.S. played a most unusual role: it served as the only communications channel between the isolated Soviet embassy and Moscow. Washington relayed a list, provided by the embassy, of Soviet citizens in the Grenada chancellery to Moscow, as well as the embassy's request for instructions on what to do next. The Kremlin orders, sent through Washington, were that everyone, including a number of East Germans, North Koreans and Bulgarians, should leave the island, as Scoon had demanded. The Soviets, who had paid $40,000 each for two Mercedes embassy cars, reached the dealer...
...asking; which means, of course, that most men still don't know what it's like to be asked. But any man who has been asked out by someone whom he finds unin-triguing or loathsome knows what it's like to be put on the spot by a request which, no matter how cleverly or vaguely worded, essentially means, "Am I attractive and interesting enough for you to even consider giving me a chance?" Few people enjoy getting their feelings hurt: I suspect equally few enjoy feeling responsible for hurting another individual's feelings...
...didn't get the wage increase, but we got cash bonuses for the waiters," explained Roberts yesterday. "We made it clear that we are interested in pursuing wage gains. Next year we expect [our wage request] to be addressed...
...finally provided a short videotape of Cuban weapons caches found in warehouses on Grenada, Cuban prisoners and a few seconds of combat, CBS aired it with a prominent label on-screen reading, "Cleared by Defense Department Censors." At week's end NBC filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Government, demanding the unedited footage that was shot by military photographers...
...before he died in 1972, Heschel urged his daughter to apply to the seminary as a candidate for ordination as a rabbi. "I think things might change," he said. Though women had long studied and taught at J.T.S., none had ever tried to become a rabbi. Susannah's request was denied...