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...with what he called a "news flash." Said the President: "Some years ago, a favorite movie theme was the crusading reporter-hat on the back of his head, clutching the phone-[who] would yell, 'Give me the city desk, I've got a story that'll crack this town wide open!' I've read that line a few times myself. Well, I'm not wearing a hat or clutching a phone. But I'd Like to make an important announcement. I have, today, asked [Federal Reserve Board] Chairman Paul Volcker to accept reappointment...
Fearful that leftist radicals might try to exploit Honduras' domestic woes, Alvarez began to crack down on terrorists after the inauguration of Suazo in January 1982. The Argentine-trained Alvarez seemed to be adopting the same tactics the military junta in Buenos Aires used in its "dirty war" against leftist terrorists in the 1970s. According to human rights activists, 34 people have been murdered and an additional five have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. In April, paramilitary squads gunned down three trade-union leaders. Says Ramón Custodio López, a doctor who helped found the Honduran Commission...
...astrophysics at Stanford. By 1978 she had a doctorate but no job. When NASA advertised for the first time in ten years for astronaut-scientists, she became one of 8,370 applicants. After grueling physical and mental examinations, including a session with two NASA psychiatrists who tried to crack her now celebrated composure, Ride was one of 35 candidates picked, six of them women. The other female "Ascans" (NASA slang for astronaut candidates) were equally talented: Judith Resnik, a doctor of electrical engineering; Anna Fisher, an M.D.; Kathryn Sullivan, a Ph.D. in geology; Surgeon Rhea Seddon; and Biochemist Shannon Lucid...
...lines were sharply drawn, comic-book-style. Luke, who will then be the age Obi-Wan Kenobi is now, some place in his 60s, will reappear, and so will his friends, assuming that the creator decides to carry the epic further. Hamill and the others will get first crack at the roles-if they look old enough...
...Frontier before those covers ever materialized. In fact, the galleys to the book were one of the hottest items in Washington, D.C. this spring as policy makers and politicians scrambled to read Dr. Reich's prescription for the ailing U.S. economy. Now the general public has finally gotten its crack at an enlightening work which urges a dramatic change of direction for the role of U.S. business, labor and government towards more advanced industries and a more flexible labor system...