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Iooss first met Cheryl three years ago when he photographed her for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's annual swimsuit issue for 1975, her second appear ance on that magazine's cover. Recalls Iooss: "We were shooting on location in Cancun, a Mexican resort that's a rough, hot four-hour car ride from the main airport. I thought she'd be furious. But Cheryl is a real pro - she arrived all smiles, no airs about her. She's like the average girl next door - just more beautiful than average...
...doubtful the meeting was considered as inconsequential by Carter as he would have us believe. The huddle did after all address the prospect of an unprecedented indictment against a former head of the intelligence community. In any case, the president was forced to resort to explanations of this sort because of his own initial ineptness. Or sloppiness. Call it what you like, but the president of this country lied because the Watergate ethos of clearing one's name of complicity through cover-up is easier than admitting error...
Weiner has already set up a makeshift office in the Marco Polo Resort on Collins Avenue, where many of Miami Beach's hotels are clustered. Under the banner of a LET'S HELP FLORIDA committee, the campaign to collect signatures will begin in two weeks, with a July 31 deadline...
...made, we can win." The idea's biggest selling point may be that gambling would be limited to a strip of about 20 miles along Florida's Gold Coast -where the hotelmen and others in a once lucrative tourist market see legalized gambling as their last resort...
...year economy has not grown at all since 1975, when it rose a meager .6%. Unemployment, says the government of Brigadier General Omar Torrijos, runs at 11%, but unofficial estimates put it at twice that much. It has fallen upon the government to become the employer of last resort, and since late last year Torrijos has created 22,000 new jobs, mostly make-work. Inflation, mercifully, has dropped from 30% in 1974 to less than 10%, and a new sales tax added some $35 million to government coffers last year. But the $432 million budget (9% of it allotted...