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Historians who study this episode may call it the Sara Lee decision because the moment of truth for Reagan came just after he had addressed the employees of the Sara Lee Bakery in Deerfield, Ill. By any measure it is a singularly clear look at how Ronald Reagan decides, and that is the very essence of being President...
...enraptured employees of Sara Lee, the word was flashed to McFarlane about the terrorists' plans to fly out of Cairo. Onstage, Reagan thundered his ire against deficits and roared another pledge to get Government spending down. "God bless you," he shouted from behind his famous grin. The red-jacketed Deerfield High School band swung into Military Escort, and the crowd cheered. Behind the stage in what had been an employee conference room, McFarlane and his aides waited somberly with their news. The gentle folks of Sara Lee had rented a big desk and hung an ersatz presidential seal to make...
...when. At a Friday press conference, National Security Adviser McFarlane said only that Reagan's "community of advisers" proposed the idea "on the road," meaning on the way to Chicago. At about 11:50 a.m., as a presidential motorcade wended its way to a Sara Lee bakery in Deerfield, Ill., McFarlane informed a White House staffer that the Egyptian plane bearing the hijackers would leave Cairo at about 4 p.m. EDT. After Reagan held forth on tax reform at the bakery, McFarlane informed the President at about midday that it might be possible to intercept the jetliner. In a private...
...Padres had a right to gulp when they arrived in Chicago and found that the four makeshift umpires breaking the strike (and mangling the strike zone) hailed from the Illinois townships of Deerfield, Des Plaines, Northbrook and Arlington Heights. Anyone who could read the signs at Wrigley Field (MY HUBBY FOR A CUBBY) and the signals everywhere else around the country knew that there were few impartial observers anywhere. When the tournament shifted to San Diego, the amateur umps were brought in from Arizona, and the Padres were revived...
...Gregg Tyson SE Lafayotte Hill, Pa. 12 Steve Anderson DE San Leandro, Calif. 13 Andrew Marctz PK Woodbridge, Calif. 14 Robert Santiago WB San Antonio, Texas 15 Jerry Leone ADJ Franklin, Mass. 16 Rick Patton FS Mendham, N.J. 17 Patrick Coyne SE Pittsburgh, Pa. 18 K.C. Smith ADJ Deerfield, Mass. 19 Kevin Mohan ADJ Milford, Mass. 20 Chuck Shirey SE Waterloo, Iowa 21 Dean Givas FB Sacramento, Calif. 21 Tim Manges WB Fort Wayne, Ind. 22 Mike Madden WB Pleasanton, Calif. 23 Tom McMillin SE Glendale, Calif. 24 Lee Oldenburg CB Acton, Mass. 25 Joel Seay SE Fountain Valley, Calif...