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...country."He apparently hoped to exploit the growing uneasiness between the union and the dissidents. KOR has been on the defensive since earlier this month, when a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church charged that its leading activist, Jacek Kuron, had made "noisy and irresponsible statements" against Moscow. Stung by the church attack, KOR replied that it was "contrary to the stand of the whole history of the Catholic Church for the past 35 years...
...redecorating as on Cabinetmaking. Reagan aides traipsed in and out of the White House's working areas to size up office space. Tape measure in hand, Graber personally spent two days poring over the living quarters, including the Carters' bedroom. Carter people, who have been rather stung by all the press commentary on the "style" that the Reagans might restore to the capital; snickered gleefully that all the newcomers would bring was "Beverly Hills class." Few other First Families have plunged into redecoration right away. One of the first things the Kennedys intended to do was convert...
...wall for me." Ernest Hemingway did not go quite that far to prove his love for young Adriana Ivancich, but he did write her some 2,000 letters between 1949 and 1955, and he immortalized her as Renata in Across the River and into the Trees (1950). Years later, stung by inferences in a Hemingway biography, Ivancich, now Countess Von Rex, 50, says that she "felt it was time to tell how it really was." How it was, she says, in the as yet untranslated La Torre Bianco (The White Tower), was chaste. Their love was consummated only in fiction...
...resolution. Emmy Schaffer, a survivor of a World War II German concentration camp, spearheaded the initiative by organizing a band of housewives with the slogan: "In America, English first." The movement gained momentum among whites after the summer's Miami riots and huge influx of Cuban refugees. Stung by the backlash, one Hispanic spokesman called the law "the most destructive thing that has ever happened to this community." Its impact, however, will mainly be on county road signs, tourist brochures and public notices. Bilingual education programs will not be affected...
Last spring, when the Consumer Price Index was leaping from peak to peak like a bee-stung mountain goat, economists, among others, looked to food prices for a little consolation. People at check-out counters may find it hard to believe, but the cost of food was then going up more slowly than the Consumer Price Index. In the first half of the year, when inflation briefly topped 18%, food prices grew at an annual rate of only...