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...Senator, I've offered my resignation to the President twice, and he has decided that he would prefer that he not accept it, and that's his call." DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Secretary of Defense, responding to Senator Edward Kennedy's call for his resignation...
...curly-haired teenager commutes twice a week to his Paris office from his home in Lyons and spends off-hours on correspondence-school courses and tinkering with his computer. Although ineligible for a government salary, which workers must be at least 18 to receive, De Vignemont has few financial worries. He has already earned thousands of dollars from sales of computer programs. Warns the budding technocrat: "And my parents better not touch...
...validate Gramm-Rudman. The Reagan Administration's chief courtroom attorney, Solicitor General Charles Fried, pressed the Administration's view before the Supreme Court last week. The Comptroller's duties under Gramm-Rudman "affect every nook and cranny of the Executive Department," he contended. During two hours of argument, twice the normally allotted time, lawyers for the House, the Senate and the Comptroller came to the law's defense. Steven Ross, representing the bipartisan leadership of the House, rejected the claim that the Comptroller was answerable to Capitol Hill, arguing that Congress had assigned him a role in the Gramm-Rudman...
Suspicions about Syria's role were bolstered by an interview with Pierre Marion, head of France's foreign-intelligence operations in 1981-82. Marion said that during his term he met twice with Assad's brother Rifaat, who at the time headed one of Syria's secret-service branches. "I looked him in the eyes and I said, 'Your Excellency, you are going to promise me that there will be no more terrorist attacks in France,'" Marion recalled. "He promised it to me and he kept his word...
After 17 years of determining "all the news that's fit to print," Rosenthal will begin writing a twice-weekly column, ending an era in which the Times reached new heights of success and prestige. Under Rosenthal, the Times won nearly two dozen Pulitzer Prizes, introduced new sections and a more contemporary look, and reversed its financial fortunes to become one of the nation's most lucrative newspapers. "The Times changed more under Abe than under any editor in its history," says Benjamin Bradlee, executive editor of the Washington Post. "It burst full-blown into the 20th century...