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...lack of American strength. Mondale attributed it to the present Administration's lack of interest in pursuing it. Mondale advanced the view that the President ought to know the appropriate information about the major crises, like Lebanon, and that in addition he ought to be on top of chronic issues like arms control. Reagan, by contrast, seemed to advance the view of the President as ultimately responsible in an overall way for policy but not much in the way of details...
About halfway through the review, the roar of jets signaled an air force flypast, which was virtually invisible to ground observers because of Peking's chronic smog. The New China News Agency reported that 96 aircraft had taken part. They included H-6 bombers, Chinese versions of the Soviet TU-16 Badger; A6s, radically redesigned ground-support planes similar to the MiG-19; and F-7s, a Chinese adaptation of the MiG-21. The foreign observers had not missed much. Although China has the second-largest number of combat aircraft in the world (after the Soviet Union), most...
HOSPITALIZED. George Wallace, 65, Alabama Governor who has been confined to a wheelchair since an assassination attempt in 1972; for treatment of a chronic urinary-tract infection, an ailment common among paraplegics; in University Hospital in Birmingham...
...true, retorted Miller in a 115-page rebuttal. He dismissed the attacks as the "predictable venting of final rage by a chronic complainer." The winner in the slugfest: Who knows? Who cares? The loser: U.S. taxpayers, who paid an estimated $80,000 to prepare and publish the competing critiques...
Contrasting Harvard and B.U., Thomson said B.U. "Is trying to move fast and is doing so successfully, Harvard's danger is complacency." He said his only problem has proved to be Boston's chronic parking shortage...