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Another Christo plan set back for the moment by red tape is wrapping Berlin's Reichstag, the former parliament building of Germany which lies on the border between East and West Germany, in cloth. "The sheer physicality of uniting Germany appeals to my interest in Eastern Europe" Christo said...
...Wodehouse was attempting to show the Germans in a favorable light. But a careful examination of the transcripts (which Sproat includes in full in the appendix) shows only the gentle sarcasm which pervaded everything Wodehouse ever wrote. There is no evidence that he sympathized with the Nazis in the tape; in fact, much of what was interpreted as praise in the heat of the anti-Wodehouse sentiments was in fact making fun of the Germans...
...include the private telephone and telex numbers for Wilson in Tripoli, as well as notes from what appear to be conversations with him. Prosecutors also think that Tafoya is involved in the fire-bombing of a car belonging to one of Wilson's former business associates. In a tape recording seized at Tafoya's house, a man believed to be Tafoya tells a phone caller that he was responsible for the bombing and is available for other jobs: "Do you know somebody that should quit breathing permanently?" Authorities have identified the man he spoke to as James Clinton...
...provided authorities with "boxes and boxes" of further evidence. "It was a gold mine," said one exultant investigator. "When these people are underground, one of them invariably thinks he or she is going to write the new Das Kapital. So they write every damn thing down, and sometimes they tape it all. You'd think they would have learned from Nixon...
...turkey dinner at CAT FERRANTE's house in nearby Kingston. Despite the sparse resources on the road trip, a few of the players refused to allow Halloween to pass without dressing up in costume. Reserve goalie BARB MAHON was particularly creative, decorating her black goalie uniform with some athletic tape to arrive as a skeleton. Co-captain DANA WARREN and striker SARAH CHUBB squeezed into the same pair of pants and feigned siamese twins, while midfielder MERRY ANN MOORE padded an over-sized pair of jeans and went as "Big Buns." Sweeper DEB FIELD donned some fatigues for the "G.I.Deb...