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...portrait-and smudged a part of the canvas. Writes Duncan: "I spent the whole morning dabbing with spit-moistened Kleenex trying to reduce the damage, to clean away the smudges." By lunchtime, the hour at which Picasso usually got out of bed, Duncan, his face gray-green, had to confess his crime. "What's happened?" asked the artist, thinking Duncan had crashed his beloved 300 SL Mercedes. After hearing that the photographer had in fact crashed a priceless work of art, Picasso turned and shouted to Jacqueline: "You have two starving men on your hands! What time...
...Kansas whether he supported 100% parity, a formula that pegs the price of grain to an index of what various consumer goods cost in 1914. To oppose parity in Kansas is considered somewhere between blasphemy and heresy, but Reagan's answer was almost as bad: "I have to confess to you that I'm not as familiar with that as some things." Pressed the next day, he admitted: "I know more about it than I indicated there." The trouble was that he actually had long opposed 100% parity. "I want to see farming out in the free market...
...Pettit pronounced Ronald Reagan politically "dead." New Hampshire was easier but still vexing. Morton Kondracke of the New Republic boldly predicted that Bush would win by six percentage points and Jimmy Carter by 20. When Reagan won and Edward Kennedy came close, Kondracke offered a mea culpa: "I confess to having contracted hubris by calling the Republican race in Iowa almost exactly. But I am better now. I promise not to do it again, at least without hedging more carefully." The press was again caught off guard by John Anderson's strength in Massachusetts and Vermont...
...parliament against his principal clerical opposition, the Islamic Republic Party of the Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti. If he succeeds, a settlement on the hostages may still be possible reasonably soon. Less extreme in his demands than the militants, Banisadr reached a tentative agreement with Washington under which the U.S. would confess to past offenses in Iran, promise not to interfere again, help Iran recover the funds removed by the Shah and refrain from opposing Iran's efforts to force his extradition from Panama...
...statement about its role in Iran. The new leaders in Tehran have been demanding that Washington confess and apologize for alleged crimes against the Iranian nation supposedly committed while the U.S. backed the Shah. Though the Administration remains adamantly opposed to anything smacking of an apology, it seems ready to issue a statement that would affirm Iran's inviolable sovereignty and pledge not to interfere in its internal affairs. Washington especially has been balking at any reference in such a statement to the CIA-backed coup that returned the Shah to his throne in 1953 or to any wording...