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...tribe of about 280 families--over 1000 people--left their homes in the towering Pamir mountains, to the north in Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor, after Soviet troops invaded in December, 1979. Fighting hit-and-run battles against the better-equipped Russians, they soon had to sell their livestock and slip over the border into Pakistan. Now they want to come to America--possibly Alaska--and settle permanently...
Although Reagan entered office hoping to govern largely through his Cabinet, the idea never flew very high. A few Cabinet members who are longtime Reagan intimates, notably Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Attorney General Smith, can slip in to see Reagan one-on-one and sometimes sway major decisions. But the Cabinet as a body is little more than a discussion group. It has met 35 times; issues are "round-tabled" (a White House buzz word) to give everyone a chance to sound off, and the President delivers what amounts to pep talks. But Reagan almost never announces...
...troika cannot always keep an eye on everything, and when it lets an issue slip by, the result can be chaos. Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker, charged with developing a program to keep Social Security solvent, last May produced with Stockman's help a proposal to reduce sharply the future growth of pensions for people who retire at age 62. It was rushed to the White House on a weekend so that it could be discussed at a Cabinet meeting Monday morning, and an Administration position could then be presented at congressional hearings on Social Security. Meese...
...Crimson defensemen continually knocked the puck away from Wildcats breaking into the zone, and if, on a rare occasion, they let somebody slip by for a shot, Lau was playing backboard in the net. That's nothing new for him against UNH, though, as he's now 4-0 against the Wildcats, including a 4-1 win in Durham two years...
...picker. Brown swaggers and staggers through the play's increasingly disjointed action with true comic aplomb, bawling "There's More Than One Way of Skinnin' a Cat" with reckless disregard for his tone-deafness, and applying his sense of dramatic timing to the moments that his cohorts largely let slip...