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...homosexuals. The proposition's chances are rated fifty-fifty. Not so for a second issue on the Florida ballot, which would permit casino gambling on the state's economically troubled gold coast. Hotel owners have bankrolled a million-dollar campaign in its favor, but Governor Reubin Askew has mounted a sort of holy war against the proposition, arguing that gambling would attract organized crime. Polls show public sentiment to be running 2 to 1 against the proposal...
...struggle had clearly taken some toll of the doughty old Zionist warrior. At 3:33 a.m. last Thursday Knesset Speaker Yitzhak Shamir announced the results of a roll call vote on a resolution approving the Camp David peace accords: 84 yes, 19 no, 17 abstentions. His tie uncharacteristically askew, a jubilant but obviously exhausted Begin embraced Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin and two of his key aides, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. Next day Begin-who has a history of heart trouble-was taken to a Jerusalem hospital; doctors reported that he was merely suffering from fatigue...
...queen appeared, primed to drive me out into the night. Sitting in her isolated booth, she cast hostile glances at everyone in the restaurant. As our eyes met I jerked away in fear and applied renewed attention to my place mat. As she attacked her order, her wig came askew. The nextlook in my direction was so full of violence that I could almost feel a blow. Tossing a bill on the table, I dragged my near comatose roommate...
Kasper has been awake for the greater part of three days working on the project, and he looks it. His blond hair is all askew and his black pants are covered with sawdust; yet there is a dancing madness in his eyes that is most engaging, especially when he discusses his plans...
...have affected news coverage of the casino gambling. One small exception: participating papers neglected to reveal their financial stake until forced to by last month's disclosure of campaign spending. Still, the Gannett Co.'s four Florida dailies declined to contribute, despite a personal appeal from Askew to chain President Allen Neuharth. The Miami News last week printed a letter from 47 employees objecting to the paper's contribution. "Nobody is censoring our copy," says Miami Herald Reporter Pat Riordan, "but this whole thing raises the appearance of a conflict of interest...