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Want to sell DC-9s for Yugoslav hams, beer and machine tools, or frozen New Zealand lamb for Iranian oil? How about U.S. jet fighters for Greek cement, or a 150 million-year-old Mongolian dinosaur skeleton for West German cars...
...pessimism is not the stuff of Juan Carlos's reign, as the king likes to say himself. He has time to cement the transition. Says Marichal of the king's reign thus far, "Probably even Franco would be surprised...
...downtown Detroit or Miami's coke country, thugs and pushers are unappealing, malignant-and instantly recognizable. All one needs to know of Hit Man Eddie Moke in Stick, for instance, is that he changed his image from heavy metal to urban cowboy but still looked "like he mainlined cement." Paco Boza, a Cuban street junkie of LaBrava, tools around South Miami Beach in a stolen Eastern Airlines wheelchair "because he didn't like to walk and because he thought it was cool." Cornell Lewis, a black ex-con houseman for a high roller in Stick, explains his boss...
Originally, Brazelton had intended to use the scale to understand the baby so his parents could understand him too, "to cement parents to the baby they've got." But in recent years he has pursued another track while others have carried on his original purpose...
...percentage of votes that a candidate must win in a first primary in order to avoid a runoff. The Mondale camp indicates it could accept that; Hart has said he favors the single primary. Jackson yearns to put his political clout behind the nominee in a campaign that would cement his new standing as a national figure. Whether the contenders can come up with a deal that would permit him to do so is one of the questions that figure to make the Democratic Convention quite a show. -By George J. Church. Reported by Timothy Loughran/New York and Jack...