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...living rooms and kitchens around Bethel, people are plotting ways to extricate themselves from their collective predicament. Former Teacher Harold Sparck sees the Bering Sea and its fisheries as a rich alternative source of income. Steve Constantino, 35, an attorney and president of the local Chamber of Commerce, is touting tourism and the lure of about 100 species of birds that spend their summers in the region. (He makes no mention of the score or so species of mosquitoes that share the turf.) Rosie Porter, the feisty editor and publisher of the weekly Tundra Drums and proprietor of the Porter...
...House vote was largely symbolic. Democratic leaders concede that even if the Senate goes along with the plan, there are not enough votes in either chamber to override the inevitable presidential veto. But the vote signals that Congress is in no mood to approve an additional $105 million in aid, which the Administration is planning to request in the fall. Says House Speaker Jim Wright: "This exercise is very useful in awakening the Administration to the reality that it has to begin to focus on other ways to serve our interests in Central America...
...visited Capitol Hill to "get my passport restamped," as he put it, but actually to dramatize the Administration's desire to rebuild its relations with Congress. Republican Leader Bob Dole welcomed Baker to his office, which had been named "The Howard H. Baker Jr. Rooms" after he left the chamber in 1984. Dole had Baker's portrait placed where cameras could catch it and jokingly beamed a baby spotlight at it. He also offered Baker a key to his old office. No thanks, joked the new chief of staff, "I kept...
...much that Ennio Morricone has lost count. He just never kept one. By rough reckoning, he has upwards of 130 original scores for film and television to his credit. This total does not include his various chamber and orchestral compositions, nor does it tally all the musical arranging he did for records, radio and the theater. But whatever the vagaries of the composer's archival arithmetic, there is no doubt that he has written scores for many films that count heavily in contemporary history...
...Senate majority leader during Reagan's first term, the diminutive Tennessean pushed Reagan's tax and spending cuts through the upper chamber with tact and skill, earning the respect even of the President's opponents. Though he is too moderate and conciliatory to please Reagan's hard-right fans for long, the choice of Baker drew wide initial praise. Democratic Senator James Sasser, Baker's onetime colleague from Tennessee, praised the new chief of staff's "pragmatism and reasonableness" and called the selection of Baker a "stroke of genius...