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...favorite pair of comedians (excluding the team of George Bush and Billy Carter) answering your questions, pronouncing your name in print! Ask Cheech! Ask Chong! Just send your questions, whether weird or wise, to Cheech and Chong Quizmaster, Ampersand, 1680 N. Vine, Suite 201, Hollywood, CA 90028. We'll dispatch a hard-boiled, hard-nosed, maybe even hard-of-hearing journalist to Columbia Pictures, where Cheech & Chong will soon film Cheech & Chong's Columbia Project; we'll make those guys answer 20 of the best questions submitted (our choice, and that's final). What's more, Cheech & Chong will send...
...right combination of money and lawyers can do just about anything. If it loses, officials will be angry and probably talk about a breakdown in communications between the University and the state. But as the University's lawyers march off to court to challenge the decisions, the officials who dispatch them should realize that a more sensitive approach to their problems, from striking workers to dusty diesels, might have been more efficient in the long...
...bustling offices in Peking. The throngs of arriving American businessmen, intermingling with the flood of foreign tourists, have made hotel rooms in Peking as scarce, and as expensive, as old jade. If any delegations arrive without confirmed space, they sometimes have to wait for hours while their hosts dispatch messengers to various hotels to snap up rooms as they become vacant. In the coffee shop of the Peking Hotel, the only such Western-style watering hole in town, businessmen often gather to chew over deals in progress and grouse about prices, which for foreigners tend to run two to three...
Brown ticked off some of the gains in military preparedness during his tenure: a tripling of spending next year, to $1 billion, for spare parts for the Air Force; the shipment of enough equipment to Europe to enable the U.S. to dispatch four divisions to the Continent within two weeks, in contrast with only one division in 1976; by the improved ability of the U.S. to move forces to the Persian Gulf by placing seven supply ships in the Indian Ocean and by negotiating the right to use ports and airfields in the region in an emergency. Brown properly gave...
...whole batch, said Powell, "would not have amounted to a hill of beans." Powell was right. In the earliest cable, Washington merely alerted the U.S. embassy in Tripoli that Billy Carter was coming its way on a private trip. After Billy and his delegation arrived in Libya, a dispatch from the embassy noted that "some members of the Georgia delegation obviously are interested in relieving Libya of some of its petrodollars. Though they do not seem to have made much progress yet." The most important cable, and the only one stamped CONFIDENTIAL, was sent at the end of Billy...