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...Washington, the War Room is buzzing with news of Ripper's strike. Things have reached such a frenzy that the bearish Russian ambassador de Sadesky has been admitted to the top secret chamber, spy camera and all. Peter Sellers appears again, this time as the balding President Muffley, a sort of Mister Rogers with backbone, who is determined to keep Russian Premier Kissoff from executing a retaliatory strike. Surrounded by hard-core war-mongering generals, his touchy-feely Red Line conversation with Kissoff, the missile attack blinking ever closer on the Big Board behind him, seems surreal...
Officials from Harvard, MIT and the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce have endorsed the manager for his fiscal acumen which, they say, has helped produce an annual surplus in the city budget...
...open session part of the council meeting took more than three hours, as some 30 Reeves supporters packed into the council chamber to charged the Chronicle and three city councillors with prejudice...
...apocalypse. "They look at Aristide and what do they see?" says a businessman. "They see their cook, their gardener, their maid." The rich have stepped up private patrols of their flower-fringed villas and sleep with pistols beneath their beds. "Everybody is afraid," says Raymond Roy, president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "Aristide's people can destroy everything in three hours...
...juror questioning is over. Transcripts of the "closed" sessions will be released when a jury is impaneled. Attorneys for media organizations are studying the ruling before deciding whether to file an appeal, but a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union immediately called Ito's courtroom a "star chamber...