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...back-seat accommodations, print reporters at the Democratic Convention realized that they were, more than ever, mere onlookers at a network TV spectacular. From the layout of the hall to the schedule of proceedings, everything was designed to assist or beguile ABC, NBC, CBS and a new but virtually coequal presence, Cable News Network. The long, low, wire-laden convention hall looked like, and became, an enormous TV studio. The delegates, the nominal center of activity, served mainly as a massive studio audience, providing emotional (and often selective and misleading) reaction shots during speeches. The four network booths loomed above...
Afghanistan, however, is clearly anything but peripheral. By their virtual annexation of the country, the Soviets have made its fate central to their most fundamental disagreement with the U.S. At issue: What rules should govern the rivalry now that the U.S.S.R. has emerged as a true superpower, coequal with the U.S. in military might...
...twelve-minute work cycles) for this, and for lectures by Bo and Peep. The Two proclaim that Bo has been Jesus, Elijah and Moses in his former lives. The spacecraft is imminently expected. It will carry believers to an enigmatic "garden" where they will get "energy" from their coequal, the King of Kings, alias Chief of Chiefs, the god who created planet earth. Believers will live eternally in hairless, toothless bodies that are free of disease and decay. Groll scoffs about possible parallels between the camp discipline and the tragic end of Jonestown: "Anyone can walk away. We just have...
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger strenuously dissented, arguing that the majority decision "invaded historic, fundamental principles of the separate powers of coequal branches of government." Burger added that the verdict "may well be a 'ghost' at future White House conferences, with conferees choosing their words more cautiously because of the enlarged prospect of compelled disclosure to others." Dissenting Justice William H. Rehnquist was equally vehement: "Today's decision countenances the power of any future Congress to seize the official papers of an outgoing President as he leaves the inaugural stand...
...members' quests for unshared power. Octavian outmaneuvered his fellow triumvirs-Mark Antony and Lepidus-to become undisputed ruler of ancient Rome, and Soviet history is littered with collective leaderships that failed. Following Lenin's death, Stalin served on two consecutive triumvirates, each time ruthlessly eliminating his supposedly coequal partners. After Stalin, the various members of the Kremlin's new collective kept vying with each other for supremacy until Nikita Khrushchev emerged...