Word: dodds
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...heart of that debate is the question of whether the Sandinistas can be trusted. A skeptical White House dismisses Sandinista concessions as cosmetic and insincere. "Each step they have taken, each reluctant reform, is still easily undone," Reagan insisted. Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut challenged that view. "Every time the Sandinistas make a concession, the White House sees it as a major setback," he charged last week. White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater delivered a sharp rebuttal. "The Democrats, Chris Dodd and others, they want a surrender, and they think surrender is the best way to achieve peace. We disagree...
...same time, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) said the administration has decided to sit out the peace process because it is at odds with the president's goal of eliminating the Sandinista regime from Nicaragua...
...Slap" Maxwell Story, with Dabney Coleman as a self-centered sports columnist. Coleman, so delightfully rancid in Buffalo Bill, is more sympathetic here, his thick-skinned pomposity barely disguising the desperate character underneath. The ABC series, created by Jay Tarses (Buffalo Bill, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd), is maybe too precious and in-jokish ("Six cliches in ten seconds," marvels a bartender after one of Slap's overripe monologues), but Coleman seems headed toward another memorable characterization...
...Scotland Yard and the signature detective of Michael Innes, a.k.a. J.I.M. Stewart, 80, a retired Oxford don who has been crafting wry, sprightly, often fanciful mysteries for more than half a century. The "ex-bobby," as he coyly calls himself, reappears in an umpteenth adventure, Appleby and the Ospreys (Dodd Mead; 185 pages; $15.95), to investigate the murder of a dotty peer struck down in the library of his ancestral country pile. There is not much out of the ordinary in either the premise or the solution, but Innes' plot prestidigitation is as deft as ever, and his celebrated sense...
...surfaced on Capitol Hill. In the House, Republican Nancy Johnson of Connecticut and Democrat Cardiss Collins of Illinois introduced legislation to establish a national clearinghouse for information on child-care services. A Senate subcommittee began hearings focused on the shortage of good-quality, affordable day care. Says Chairman Christopher Dodd of Connecticut: "It's about time we did something on this critical problem...