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Consider what has become of some of Nixon's enemies, the people who, over the years, thought that they had left him for dead. John Kennedy, for example, buried 20 years ago, has undergone some savage revisionism that held him to be a second-rate President and an indiscreet philanderer. Pat Brown, who won the 1962 California gubernatorial race that supposedly ended Nixon's career ("You won't have Nixon to kick around any more . .. this is my last press conference") was superseded by an ideological antithesis, Ronald Reagan, and eventually by Brown's son Jerry...
...burning villages, fields and orchards and sometimes by executing the male inhabitants of nearby villages. Last July Soviet forces shot as many as 30 elders in the provincial capital of Ghazni. In October, after a series of raids on convoys outside Kandahar, the Soviets left some 100 civilians dead in nearby settlements. At times over the past year, they have mounted aerial and artillery attacks on Istalif, Herat and other cities, but without destroying the rebels' resiliency. Soon after the Soviet and Afghan government forces announced last August that they had "pacified" Kandahar, the Mujahedin took to the rooftops...
...told PEOPLE magazine, he dislikes questions about home, the family, marriage: "I've spent years trying to get it right in fiction, and I don't propose to get it wrong in a sentence or two." If everyone felt that way, talk shows would stop dead...
...King's recent bestseller about a killer automobile, opened around the country in early December, the sixth film of a King novel and the third to be released in the past five months. It followed last summer's Cujo, about a murderously rabid St. Bernard, and The Dead Zone, starring Christopher Walken as a schoolteacher tormented by his ability to foresee the future...
...that he feels badly treated by the studios. His screenplays for Cujo and The Dead Zone were reworked by others, but he still liked the finished films. And he is enthusiastic about Christine. "I wanted to go back and see it over again," the author says. "I've been lucky. I've had six adaptations of my novels, and there hasn't been a real dog in the bunch." (His only major reservation was with Stanley Kubrick's elegant, brooding 1980 version of The Shining; King found the director too "pragmatic and rational.") Though...