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...tape got a full airing at noon Tuesday, in the most theatrical scene at the U.N. Security Council in a generation. The council chamber was dominated by two 21-in. TV screens placed on shoulder-high stands behind the horseshoe-shaped delegates' desk; three smaller monitors were aimed at the press and visitors' galleries. When U.S. Ambassador Kirkpatrick rolled the tapes, delegates and visitors could hear on their headsets simultaneous translations in all six official languages at the U.N. The TV screens showed the words of the pilots in Russian and English letters, and a map with moving lines represented...
...first time in 28 years, is hardly more rewarding than fighting from the opposition sidelines. Tower's stand-down probably increases the chances that before long they may be doing just that. Next year the Democrats need only five seats to win back the leadership of that unruly chamber...
...open-necked shirts, safari jackets and jeans he had taken to wearing in Parliament in an attempt to project a populist image. Last week he was wearing dark, tailored suits as he held court with fellow politicians, labor leaders and business executives at a long oval table in the Chamber of Deputies' ornate Sala di Governo. With a mandate from President Sandro Pertini to form Italy's 44th postwar government, Craxi was trying to cobble together a five-party center-left coalition. Joining the Socialists would be the Republicans, Social Democrats, Liberals and, most notably, the Christian Democrats...
...Georgia general assembly apparently disagrees. When the growers got a bill introduced earlier this year defining the growing area of the Vidalia, "We got a fast lesson in practical politics," says the Chamber's Walden. "What happened is, growers in other parts of the state got to smelling that onion, and it got to smelling like money. By the time the legislature got through with it, the growing area included half the state." The legislation died...
...community's first superstar. So great was the interest in his remarks that the 3½-hour session had to be moved from the Senate Banking Committee Hearing Room to the cavernous Caucus Room, the scene of the Watergate hearings and the Senate's most ornate special chamber. Declared Republican John Heinz of Pennsylvania at one point in the hearing: "We're lucky to have you as chairman...