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Back now to a Washington described by Brinkley as "something like an armed camp" (shots of snipers on the White House roof). Usually Brinkley's panel of journalists-now reduced to a manageable three-interview the guest, then discuss the news among themselves. In place of the distant Gaddafi, they now turned to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, acting Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Commitee, who came on strong: "Right off, David, the President of the United States is not a liar. The dictator of Libya is a liar." There was "concrete evidence" that since 1977 Gaddafi "targeted" U.S. officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Killer Squads, Liars and Mad Dogs | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

Speaking before a crowd of 350 at the Science Center. Goody described the discovery of the outer planets of the solar system and recent exploration of distant planetary satellites...

Author: By Nancy J. Fischbein, | Title: Budget Cutbacks Would Endanger Space Exploration | 12/3/1981 | See Source »

...study of these distant bodies has supported the idea that life could exist on other planets, Goody said. Titan, Saturn's biggest satellite, has been shown to have a deep atmosphere, unlike most satellites, which are too light to hold an atmosphere by gravitational attraction...

Author: By Nancy J. Fischbein, | Title: Budget Cutbacks Would Endanger Space Exploration | 12/3/1981 | See Source »

...President who ignores those distant rumbles and internal mutterings and fails to take corrective action can find himself in peril. It is a delicate time for the Reagan presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Before It's Too Late | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...which stood on a siding near the grounds blew out an immense ring of smoke. It floated over the field a perfect O. As it sailed over the Harvard eleven Yale scored the touch down, and as McClung kicked the goal the ring gradually broke and spread into a distant Y over the Yale team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard vs. Yale: The Archives | 11/21/1981 | See Source »

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