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...troops into Africa as a throwback to the "neocolonialist" policies of Mitterrand's predecessors. Members of the center-right opposition complained that the President was doing too little, too late. U.S. officials, meanwhile, took umbrage when Mitterrand charged in a newspaper interview that the U.S. had sent its AW ACS surveillance aircraft to the region without properly consulting the French government. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes insisted that consultation had taken place "at the highest levels." When a reporter asked if that included the French President, Speakes replied...
...talking Washington. His features often convey puzzled concentration, and he likes to foster the idea that he yearns to return to raise Herefords and barley on his 888-acre ranch in San Luis Obispo County, Calif, which is being run by his three oldest sons. Says one friend: "The aw-shucks style is a little...
DIED. Monty Stratton, 70, "aw shucks" Texas farm boy who inspired The Stratton Story, a bathetic Hollywood biography starring James Stewart as the White Sox pitching ace whose career seemingly ended when his leg was amputated after a hunting accident in 1938, but who strapped on an artificial limb and returned eight years later as a winning minor-league pitcher; of lung cancer; in Greenville, Texas. When the film debuted in 1949, Stratton drawled: "It's my life, all right. I'll just hope folks will think it was worth making into a movie...
...press. Reagan has been treated with kid gloves. He has been given the benefit of the doubt, not only during this first year and a half, but also during the campaign, when his detrimental policies were never analyzed by the press. Reagan's demeanor as an "aw shucks" grandfatherly type appeals to the country and the press. Some of his characteristics, such as his not being familiar with details of issues, even arouse a sense of protection in the press. There was a kind of game by the press to see if there were questions I could not answer. Part...
...also take issue with your suggestion that I am anti-Israel by calling me and Representative Nick Rahall "persistent critics of Israel." When I voted against the AW ACS sale to Saudi Arabia, did that mean I was anti-Arab...