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...sportsman, philanthropist and industrialist (steel, uranium, oil and railroads), and with his late first wife, Heiress Joan Whitney Payson, long a mainstay of the social columns; in Lexington, Ky. Born in Maine, Payson donated more than $23 million to the Portland Museum of Art and was also a major backer of the America's Cup yachts. After his second marriage in 1977 to Virginia Kraft, then a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED editor, they established their own breeding farm, racing stable and training center...
...Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) is waging a classic war of attrition in the bush. Its target, the pro-Soviet government in Luanda, relies heavily on some 30,000 Cuban troops, much as the South Vietnamese government relied on American forces until 1975. UNITA's principal backer is South Africa, but Savimbi has visited Washington as frequently as some anticolonialist revolutionaries used to visit Moscow...
...softening up the Soviets and their local comrades. The regimes in Managua and Kabul, while not crying uncle, are clearly hurting and may even be looking for a negotiated compromise. The rebels, while not about to win, are not about to surrender either. Soon the U.S., as their principal backer, may have to decide on the next step...
...never move from their ratty old sofa; one hardly speaks. The tale they relate has already reached its resolution, and its outcome is revealed almost immediately. Yet the description of the calculated murder of an escaped convict by a greedy old woman (Kathy Bates) and her submissive husband (Andy Backer) is spellbinding. Credit belongs in equal measure to Playwright Frank Manley and to the brilliant Bates, who reveals a deadly malevolence with matter-of-fact simplicity...
...Administration official called it, showed every sign of working. Majority Leader Jim Wright, a Democrat, expressed a widely held view that the arms-talk link "enhances the likelihood" that Congress will release funds for production of an additional 21 MX missiles, bringing the total to 42. One key backer was Democratic Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, who told several colleagues that he planned to vote in favor of the MX, though he declined to make his position public. Democratic Congressman Norman Sisisky of Virginia, who moved from opposing the MX to an undecided position, admitted...