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...wing at about 1,000 ft. and plummeted to a field below. The plane landed safely back at O'Hare, and all 32 people aboard Piedmont Flight 1480, bound for Charlotte, N.C., escaped injury. Smoke was "coming out of one engine," said a passenger. "We saw it leaning, almost falling off, and then it fell off." Neither Piedmont nor Federal Aviation Administration officials were prepared to offer an explanation last week for what caused the engine to fall...
...Almost heretically, given the Republican Party's current center of gravity, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft has moved his boss to the center by calling him a "Rockefeller Republican." To the Republican right, those are fighting words. So repugnant was Nelson Rockefeller's pragmatic moderation that they forced him from Gerald Ford's ticket in 1976. "Look at most of the ((Bush)) Cabinet and White House staff," says George Clark, the former New York State Republican leader who supported Reagan in 1980 against the preferences of the state party's dominant Rockefeller wing. "The more I see and read...
Previous Inaugural calls for bipartisanship were almost always exclusively pleas for a unified American front in foreign affairs. Bush's seemed aimed primarily at domestic fiscal policy. "We need compromise," he said. "We need harmony . . . The people await action. They did not send us here to bicker . . . Let us negotiate soon -- and hard. But in the end, let us produce." Here, if nowhere else, one heard an almost plaintive cry: Help me, Congress, help me escape from the box I've created...
Still, the White House is considered a plum assignment, especially in television, because almost anything the President does or says makes the front page and tops the evening news. Exploiting this seemingly insatiable appetite for presidential news was one of the Reagan Administration's key contributions to the long history of White House press manipulation. By placing the President in attractive settings -- meeting foreign heads of state or splitting wood at his California ranch -- the White House p.r. apparatchiks provided the networks with the daily supply of visuals they desired, while cultivating the image of an active and accessible leader...
...look I want, and then I'll quit,' " explains Adam Frattasio, 26, of Weymouth, Mass., a former user. "It doesn't work that way." Bulging biceps and ham-hock thighs do a fast fade when the chemicals are halted. So do the feelings of being powerful and manly. Almost every user winds up back on the drugs. A self-image that relies on a steroid-soaked body may be difficult to change. Chamberlain has a friend, now 29, who has been taking steroids for more than a dozen years. Says Chamberlain: "His mind is so warped that he said...