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...movie for the Disney cable channel. The comedy casts Funicello as a suburban housewife whose family gets rich on an incredible streak of contest winning but finally "goes back to being the nice family we once were." Next for Funicello? Would you believe a reunion with her old beach-blanket beau, Frankie Avalon, 44, complete with a-that's right-Beach Party '85? But no wild bikinis, please...
...interview a day after the Center's seminar, he said, "People were talking about exchange programs yesterday. I didn't want to be a wet blanket, but Americans tend to turn to the right when they visit Russia. There are so many aspects of the system that are frustrating and outrageous...
...they were too ready to agree to off-the-record arrangements, particularly in campaign coverage. The New York Times, which did not publicly challenge Mondale's rules during the primaries, helped force the change for the general-election campaign. Said Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "We cannot accept a blanket off-the-record edict on the coverage of a presidential candidate." CBS News President Edward Joyce last week informed his correspondents that he will review all existing arrangements. Said a CBS spokesman: "We will evaluate each candidate's request separately, and our policy will vary...
...model of revolutionary Indian development. Everything is new, from the tin-roofed wooden houses to the local schools and clinics. Equally new are the residents, some 8,500 Miskitos who were forcibly moved to the settlement two years ago from 42 villages near the Honduran border. A blanket of benign restrictions governs Tasba Pri; the residents are free to travel, for example, only after they apply for permission. Above all, the newly domesticated Indians are forbidden to enjoy the kind of free-roaming, communal existence that was the Miskito heritage for centuries before the Sandinistas took power...
...into a self-imposed exile in Southern California. Though his resignation canceled the House Judiciary Committee's unanimous vote to impeach him, Nixon still faced a real danger of being indicted and imprisoned for obstruction of justice. A month after the resignation, President Gerald Ford granted Nixon a blanket pardon for any crimes he may have committed in the White House, but the U.S. public was less forgiving. Polls consistently showed that two-thirds of all Americans thought Nixon should not have been pardoned and should never again hold any public office. Visitors to his compound at San Clemente...