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The theories vary and sometimes conflict, but all attempt to make U.S. officials share in the blame for the tragedy with the Soviet commanders who ordered the unarmed airliner to be destroyed. Some maintain that the Korean plane was on a U.S. spy mission, as the Soviets claim. Others charge...
After a technical question-and-answer session between reporters and a team of Ferraro's lawyers and accountants, the candidate arrived, got a last-minute briefing from her aides on the thrust of the queries, and sat down before the microphones, only to find that the sound system was not...
Polls are being taken again, of course, and last week Ferraro got a new set of campaign advisers to interpret the results. Campaign Manager Sasso was an aide to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis; Anne Wexler, a White House advisor to Jimmy Carter, will be Ferraro's senior political counselor...
Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov was briefing a top-level Nicaraguan delegation over dinner in Moscow earlier this year. Emboldened by vodka, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra demanded of Ustinov, "Are you with us to the end, or will you abandon us to the U.S.?" According to an exSandinista official...
"Aha!" exclaimed Perle. "I'll bet you've been briefing the Chiefs on START!"