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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...votes in the Ohio primary this Tuesday, one of nine that once looked like the exciting windup of the nomination campaign. But all the drama had gone out of that contest, since Carter, after winning primaries in Arkansas, Kentucky and Nevada last week, was by his own count only four delegates short of the 1,666 needed to renominate him at the Democratic Convention in New York City in August. So his strategists tried to upstage a long-scheduled Reagan rally on the steps of the Ohio state capitol in Columbus by having the President address a gathering...
...burst of hyperbole that seems wildly excessive even for the darkest hours of the Watergate White House, Agnew writes that he feared for his life at the hands of Nixon aides who would stop at nothing to save the President. After vigorous bargaining, he pleaded nolo contendere to one count of income tax evasion and left office. Had he known Nixon was so vulnerable, he says now, he might have fought for his job and thus become President. It was that possibility that alarmed so many people in government, even the Prince...
...count, and the way I count you may come up with nothing from us. Some of you want three-and-a-half stories, some of you want six stories, maybe you can work out a compromise," councilor Alfred E. Vellucci told the audience that crowded into City Hall for last night's public hearing...
...Force and Army National Guard helicopters lifted 130 survivors to safety. Officials doubted that this count would go up; the last person found alive on the mountain was flown out on Tuesday. By Red Cross count, mud slides destroyed 123 homes in the town of Toutle and its surrounding area, along with bridges, roads and all other signs of human habitation...
...Washington, D.C., Children's Hospital, gathered around the lady. Ling-Ling was anesthetized, then inseminated with approximately 3.2 cc of semen that had been collected from Hsing-Hsing last year and frozen. (Fresh semen had been collected from Hsing-Hsing shortly before the insemination, but the sperm count was considered too low for conception.) To improve the odds that the artificial union would work, the team inseminated Ling-Ling again 24 hours later...