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...press conference in Birmingham later in the day, Bush proceeded to dig himself in deeper. Asked to confirm the wording of his remark, he replied, "I didn't use 'a little' " (the tape established that he had, though). He agreed that he had used "an old Texas football expression" and added, "I stand behind it." He would not apologize to Ferraro, he said, because the remark was not aimed at her. "It was a way of assessing victory. She would understand this. She's a good competitor." Ferraro's comment: "I would not address my opponent in the same...
...reported the contact and was instructed to play along. Reassigned to the Army Intelligence Agency at Fort Meade, Md., the sergeant was twice sent by the Soviets to their Mexico City embassy. Along with $6,500 and a promise of a monthly $500 retainer, he was given a miniature tape recorder, secret writing paper and a deciphering code for microdot messages...
...then ordered to read from classified documents into the tape recorder, remove the tape, hide it in a cigarette pack and hand it to a 67-year-old female courier. He was assured that the FBI "would never suspect an older woman." Agents seized the courier as she was preparing to board a plane for Czechoslovakia. Her real name turned out to be Alice Michelson, an East German citizen who taught Marxist studies at an East Berlin institute...
...Pentagon's own idea: empty military buildings could be transformed into shelters for the homeless. Congress happily budgeted $8 million. But even the best-laid plans can get caught in red tape. At a House hearing on the homeless last week, Paul Wright of the General Accounting Office, Congress's audit agency, said most of the money had been spent on routine base maintenance. "What the Defense Department did was to rob the poor box," said Democratic Congressman Ted Weiss of New York...
...more spartan Japanese models. The basic module, made of plastic lined with fire-resistant foam, costs $2,500 and comes with a twin-size foam mattress, overhead light and climate-control unit. More lavishly equipped versions, costing up to $3,900 each, feature color TV, radio, telephone, tape deck and hot-drink dispenser. Despite design improvements, McLaren concedes, it may be some time before Americans awaken to the benefits of capsule accommodation. So he plans to cater to a captive market: overcrowded prisons, where a rapid expansion of facilities has been ordered by the courts. MAC1 systems, claims McLaren, will...