Word: detroit
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Leaks are to Washington as cars are to Detroit. "Unauthorized disclosures" are the capital's chief commodity, and recently the city has had to cope with a surplus. Before the Senate Intelligence Committee managed to finish its probe of the Iran-contra affair last month, several versions of its report got into circulation prematurely. Minnesota's David Durenberger, the ranking Republican, even slipped the findings to Ronald Reagan; word of that indiscretion also leaked, provoking a minor uproar...
...going to lose touch with them," Krayer continued. "I'm going to come to every game. I'll be in the Garden [for the ECAA Championships.] And if they go to Detroit [for the NCAA finals], I'll get on a plane and go out there...
...Francisco's KRON-TV, an NBC affiliate, announced it would end its ban, and plans to start airing three 15-second spots for Trojan condoms in February. "Someone had to break the ice," said Station General Manager James Smith. Cracking the ice some more, WXYZ, the ABC affiliate in Detroit, followed KRON's lead, and will broadcast a 30-second ad for LifeStyles condoms this week. Ansell International, maker of LifeStyles, says the same spot will soon appear on another ABC affiliate, WRTV in Indianapolis...
Postwar prosperity started to change all that, as did the Supreme Court's 1954 decision to desegregate all public schools and the Voting Rights Act of 1964. Black mayors now govern Washington, Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia, and there are now more than 6,400 black officeholders where there were only a handful a generation ago. Paradoxically, these limited but real successes bring a new twist to racism. "We have more hatred now," says Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., "because we've entered a new era, an , era of competition for jobs, attention, power. Now we are the people...
...Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joseph N. Boyce, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Jack E. White, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William J. Mitchell Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, B. Russell Leavitt, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Marcia Gauger Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Edwin M. Reingold, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman, Cristina Garcia...