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...guilty? Bloch's Talmudic refusal to deny everything leaves the question open. After lunch we stopped in the men's room, where an FBI agent rushed in, standing, staring and listening as we washed our hands. Bloch agreed to meet again, "providing I don't defect to East Berlin before then...
...between Moscow and the National Hockey League, stars Vyacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov are now free to negotiate with the teams that drafted them: the New Jersey Devils, Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames (which already employs Sergei Priakin). Only one Soviet applicant has felt the need to defect. Alexander Mogilny saw Buffalo and just couldn't live anywhere else. Shrugging everything off, Soviet authorities have invited the Flames and the Washington Capitals to play a revolutionary series in Moscow and Leningrad come September...
...abortion becomes a sufficiently compelling issue, would unhappy pro- choicers defect from the G.O.P. in sufficient numbers to tilt national elections? Stuart Rothenberg, director of the political division of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, says that if Democrats can shift the image of their party toward the center on economic and defense matters and then add the abortion issue, "they have the possibility of fracturing the Republican coalition." Says Democratic National Committee spokesman Mike McCurry: "We're thinking ahead. Are we in a position where we can plan ahead? I don't think...
John Updike couldn't always get the words out. Ever since childhood Pulitzer Prize-winning author has had a stuttering problem. And although the speech defect has not stopped him from making his thoughts known in the long run, it did as a child...
...fundamentalist Right has resembled Oscar Wilde's description of George Bernard Shaw: they have no enemies in the Republican party, but they're disliked intensely by all of their friends. If MBA Republicans see that the party is actually carrying out the Right's social agenda, they will defect en masse...