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Tens of thousands of volumes of Chernenko's collected essays and speeches and countless propaganda posters emblazoned with his quotations could not quite conceal the flaws of a man whose only real claim to power was his skill as a Communist Party functionary. Nor could they dispel the fact that Chernenko had come to power with little time to live. The record of his brief tenure in the Kremlin was etched with the painful images of his faltering struggle to rule and hold back the ravages of illness...
Byrdy's testimony shattered the defense of Grzegorz Piotrowski, the leader of the three secret policemen who admit to having beaten and bound the priest. Although in his testimony he made no attempt to conceal his own part in the kidnaping and killing, Piotrowski has based his hope to escape the death sentence on the earlier autopsy conclusion that the priest had strangled on his bonds. Popieluszko was trussed by Piotrowski's assistants, co-defendants and former secret police officers Leszek Pekala and Waldemar Chmielewski. By suggesting that the savage beating contributed to Popieluszko's death, Byrdy may have destroyed...
...bewitching "superficiality" of the beautiful, masked characters, the play champions the spititual truth which magic and appearances sometimes hide; the beauty of Deramo's soul that shines even from within the grotesque, old man, and the ugliness of Tartaglia's soul that even Deramo's majestic form cannot conceal from the heart of Angela...
...once dominant. From 1966 to 1975 there were no successful spy prosecutions in the U.S. The Rockefeller Commission, impaneled to investigate intelligence abuses, discovered one of the reasons in 1975 when it unearthed a 21-year-old secret agreement under which the Justice Department gave the CIA discretion to conceal crimes by its own agents. President Gerald Ford abrogated that agreement in 1976. When the Carter Administration took over, Attorney General Griffin Bell also took a tough stance. "Neither the CIA nor the public at large is well served by hiding cases of successful spying," he later explained...
...Reagan strategists did not try to conceal their concern that one issue might yet wipe out the President's comfortable lead in the polls, which last week ranged from nine points (Harris) to 25 points (NBC). "The age thing is what we're most scared of," admitted an aide. "That's what he has to put to rest on Sunday night." Another top adviser was confident that Reagan would easily pass that test, joking, "If he doesn't drool or shake, he'll be all right...