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...Congressmen who voted its way, outmaneuvered Administration supporters in the House. Vermont Republican James Jeffords countered a bipartisan proposal to pare dairy supports to the Senate levels by offering an amendment that would increase subsidies by $2.5 billion over four years. As battle lines were being drawn, Iowa Democrat Berkley Bedell introduced a "compromise" proposal, backed by the dairy industry, that would raise supports by only $400 million over the Senate version. His plan...
...terrified, the carnage was staggering: 108 people lay dead in the atrium of the sleek, 40-story Hyatt Regency Hotel. More than 180 were injured, and at least three more died later. Some victims were pinned for hours beneath the tons of steel, cement and cables. Said Mayor Richard Berkley: "It was the worst disaster in the history of Kansas City...
...tackle football, field hockey, and women's soccer. The Q-men copped the football crown by defeating the SoHo Rebels in a rematch of last year's House Super Bowl. Not content with just the Harvard crown, the Quincy team went on to whip the Yale champions, Calhoun-Berkley, for the Ivy laurels...
...President's Trip to China and The White House Transcripts-were financial failures, with returns as high as 60%. The Pentagon Papers was their biggest success, with 1.66 million in print. "It is a high-risk venture," admits Stuart Applebaum, Bantam's publicity manager. Rena Wolner of Berkley is more blunt. Says she: "It's crap shooting...
Considering the journalistic haste with which they were assembled, Guyana Massacre and The Suicide Cult are solid documentaries. "It isn't War and Peace," admits Harwood, co-author of the Berkley book. Krause and his co-authors offer more sophisticated speculation about the psychological motives for Jonestown. One of the chapters is entitled "Scoop," a reference to Evelyn Waugh's satiric novel about journalists who cover an elusive crisis in a backward country. "A friend told me I would never write a book without a gun to my head," said Krause. Perhaps more editors and publishers should...