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...pace, Heritage expects its researchers to study topical questions, work on tight deadlines and strive to get their results noticed or, better yet, acted upon. New studies are hand-delivered to every Cabinet officer and member of Congress. The names and specialties of 1,500 congressional aides, 700 Executive Branch staffers and 3,000 journalists are stored in Heritage's computer, so that reports and press releases can be targeted to opinion leaders in various fields. So far this year, Heritage has churned out 219 publications in its basement printing plant. Says Burton Yale Pines, director of research...
...people who crowded into the Quiha camp. Shrouded in a pall of woodsmoke, their new home looked like a medieval battlefield. The parched, scabrous earth was pockmarked with foxholes in which hundreds upon hundreds of families crouched for shelter against the chill mountain wind. The lucky ones had a branch to cover their dugout; others remained exposed to the elements. As soon as a foreign visitor appeared, the emaciated people took him for a doctor, crowded around and clutched at his trousers and clung to his legs, pleading for help. Half crazy for food, they trampled each other and knocked...
...Libyan connection, revealed seven months after a British policewoman was killed by shots fired from Libya's London embassy, sparked a public outcry. "It is dreadful that this union would approach a terrorist country for help," said Ted MacKay, head of the mineworkers' North Wales branch. Declared Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock, who has supported the strike: "By any mea sure of political, civil, trade union or human rights, the Gaddafi regime is vile...
...going to branch out one target at a time," Timothy A. Walkins '86, president of the Black Students Association (BSA), said yesterday. The first target is President Bok, with whom the students are attempting to schedule a meeting, Wilkins added...
...letter was unearthed from a trove of Nixon's papers in a branch of the National Archives in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Last week Walter Mondale read the passage to campaign audiences to back up his charge that Reagan is guilty of "political grave robbing" when he invokes the names of such Democrats as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman-and, yes, John F. Kennedy. Presidential Spokesman Larry Speakes replied that Reagan "had been pleasantly surprised to find the difference between Kennedy the candidate and Kennedy the President...