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...another point he said he had been "joking" in his story to police. Moscow gossips speculated that the man of the people might also be a man of the bottle who had been on his way to bestow the roses -- and perhaps other attentions -- on one of his more ardent female supporters. Said a Soviet journalist: "He started out like Huey Long and he's ending up like Gary Hart...
...many Oregonians stand squarely in the conservation camp. Says George Atiyeh, a former logger who became an ardent environmentalist: "The forest is my church. No one has the right to defile it, anymore than I would have the right to desecrate anyone else's church. When you get down to the last of anything -- whales, trees, whatever it is -- then you don't have the right to exploit them anymore...
...political elements Brinkley brings to the novel more than make up for it; it is precisely this concept that most spy novels lack. Particularly fascinating is the view of inevitable corruption permeating whatever government controls Managua, an outlook that would warm even a hardened cynic's heart but leave ardent supporters of America's fight to democratize the world feeling slightly...
...group's members insist they are not so much an opposition faction as ardent advocates of perestroika eager to speed its implementation. Said Leningrad's representative Anatoli Sobchak: "I am not a member of the opposition; I am a supporter of the struggle for a normal economic and political life in our country." But there is a hint of criticism of current as well as past party leaders. President Mikhail Gorbachev, said historian Yuri Afanasyev, an elected official of the group, "is justifiably regarded as the man who launched reform. But the time has passed when he can successfully remain...
...young actress's murder in Los Angeles, allegedly by an ardent admirer, points up an increasingly worrisome problem for celebrities: deranged fans...