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...reason all this comes up now is that the President broke his White House rule and agreed to serve as honorary chairman of a $5 million fund drive for a new Rockwell museum being built just outside the artist's beloved Stockbridge, Mass. This was too close to Reagan's heart. White House Counsel Fred Fielding said he would take the heat for turning down the request, which came from Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte. But Reagan insisted: "I want to do it. Norman Rockwell was wonderful...
...seven Israeli tourists in the Sinai, including four children. Khater was convicted by a military court and sentenced to life imprisonment, but last week he was found dead in his room at a prison hospital. An autopsy concluded that he had committed suicide by hanging himself, but after demonstrations broke out on university campuses and in the victim's hometown, a court ordered a further investigation...
...always started fast. The San Francisco Giant first baseman was a Rookie of the Year in 1959. Second in this year's voting, four votes below the 319 needed, was Billy Williams, hard-hitting outfielder for the Chicago Cubs. But Yankee Slugger Roger Maris, whose 61 homers in 1961 broke Babe Ruth's immortal record, died last month while ballots were being cast and came in fifth with...
...country's short history is a bloody-minded chronicle of strife and intrigue against its neighbors, including North Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Oman, and of vicious infighting among its political and tribal factions at home. Last week, as battles broke out in Aden amid reports of a coup, assassinations and widespread killing, the fractious country seemed dangerously close to all-out civil...
...branches. President Amin Gemayel at first praised the plan, but he quickly changed his mind when fellow Christian leaders voiced concern that the pact would end traditional Christian dominance of Lebanese political life. Last Monday, as Gemayel prepared to return to Damascus to share his misgivings with Assad, fighting broke out in Christian-dominated East Beirut between the Lebanese Forces, a Christian militia commanded by Elias Hobeika, 29, who had signed the Damascus pact, and the fighting arm of the Phalange Party, which is loyal to President Gemayel...