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...known for his beasts. She was known for her beauty. And things just seemed to click when Wildlife Photographer and Author (The End of the Game) Peter Beard, 43, and Model Cheryl Tiegs, 33, whose sun-scrubbed looks have become a fixture on magazine covers, were thrown together on an African television safari in 1978. Last week at Long Island's Montauk Community Church, they were married. Tiegs' jungle jaunt had also turned her into an elephant aficionado, and at the wedding reception, held beneath a vast white tent on the rugged cliffs of Montauk, it was evident...
...aggresive superpower imperialism: American activity in El Salvador. Through its active support of a hateful regime, the Reagan administration has, like so many misguided administrations before it, invested America's great power and prestige in a government detested by its own people. How many times before have we blunderingly thrown military hardware at a foreign nation's ruling elite in the hope that those guns would somehow confer legitimacy on our besieged buddies? And how many times has that policy failed? One of the most tragic case studies in the bankruptcy of that mentality came in Iran. While...
Rostenkowski has thrown himself into the new job, impressing colleagues with his diligence. If he performs well in the tax fight, he could once again have a shot at the Speaker's role. But considering his distaste for Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, Rostenkowski may redirect his ambitions. Says Analyst Rose: "Any Chicago politician understands a basic truth, that being Mayor of Chicago is more important than becoming a Senator, grand vizier-or Speaker of the House...
...facing the worst economic crisis in living memory," roared Marxist Union Leader Arthur Scargill. "Young people are being thrown on the scrap heap. We have to take the fight for jobs into the streets!" As Scargill stepped back from the podium, his audience of 2,000 Young Socialists jumped to their feet and broke into wild applause. Assembled at the seaside resort of Bridlington for their annual conference, the young foot soldiers of the Marxist left spent three days berating the established order. They joined in choruses of the worldwide revolutionary anthem, the Internationale. After each refrain, they raised their...
...concentration camps." A fastidious dresser who drives a BMW, Knight is an unlikely looking street radical, but it is from the pavements that he draws his support. He has been widely accused of exploiting racial tensions in an attempt to rally radicals to his council campaign. Though he was thrown out of the Labor Party in the mid-'50s for being active in the Socialist Labor League, he was readmitted in the early...