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Thus the wily Philippine leader wrapped up the loose ends in an extraordinary new political gambit that he had first unveiled five days earlier. Appearing on ABC-TV's This Week with David Brinkley, Marcos had startled almost everyone when he declared his willingness to call a snap election "right now." Said Marcos: "I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready." After the program, the Philippine leader stated his preference for Jan. 17 balloting, which would also mark the fifth anniversary of the dissolution of the 1972 martial-law proclamation that began his era of authoritarian rule. Two days...
United's routes now span half the globe, and Richard Ferris, chairman of United's parent company, UAL, could be eyeing the other half. He may consider flying his airplanes to Europe, where competitors American and Northwest are already established. CLOTHING Christie Brinkley's Belly Flop...
...some she remains the curvy girl from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S swimsuit issues. To others she is the inspiration of Singer Billy Joel's Uptown Girl. But to Clothes Maker Russ Togs, Christie Brinkley, 31, is the name of a line of clothes that had a loss of more than $1 million in the six months ending in August. Last week the New York-based company dropped its Brinkley division, which it had kicked off in August...
Russ Togs signed Brinkley to a three-year contract in the hope that she could help them get into the upscale sportswear market, but the effort largely failed. Brinkley blames Russ Togs for not promoting her product after an initial push. Says she: "The Russ Togs management was not equipped to put ideas into action...
When Secretary Shultz on This Week with David Brinkley insisted that there was "no connection" between the hostages and the prisoners held by Israel and that "it's important for us not to allow a group of terrorists to create a connection by asserting it," he laid the grounds for Reagan to claim he had not rewarded terrorism when the swap later came off. If this course was politically advantageous to Reagan, it was also part of a set of tactical understandings that were crucial to freeing the hostages. The press finds such unacknowledged arrangements hard to accept. It created...