Word: edwin
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Leaders of American Jewish organizations were especially dismayed by the AWACS vote, and the tactics they thought the Administration had used to win it. On the morning of the Senate roll call, How ard Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress, cornered Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese in a hotel room in San Francisco. Meese was in town to keep a longstanding date to address an A.J.C. dinner that night. Squadron accused the Administration of trying to muzzle his organization by implying that the A.J.C.'s lobbying against the sale had put Israeli interests ahead of America's. Furthermore, he complained...
...outfit of red and green-the colors of the Welsh flag-Diana responded warmly to the cheering crowds in Rhyl. At one point, the tiny voice of Simon Edwin, 7, caught her ear. "My dad says give us a kiss," said Simon. "Well then," Diana replied, bending forward, "you had better let me have one." Further on, the princess spotted Joanne Edwards, 8, crippled by spina bifida. "Do you want a hug?" she asked the young girl. Whispered Joanne: "Oh yes, please." Diana lifted her out of her wheelchair and kissed her softly...
...simple non-hero is named George Spelvin (Jeff Brooks), a theatrical pseudonym for an actor playing a secondary role in a play. Spelvin has unaccountably wandered into stage company that he has never kept. The time is the present, but the other actors arbitrarily inform him that he is Edwin Booth's understudy in Hamlet and must go on tonight since "Eddie" has been injured in a car crash...
...picking up support, the Administration is backing a resolution originally proposed by Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia and co-sponsored by Republican John Warner of Virginia. The details were worked out at Warner's Georgetown home with Presidential Aides James Baker, Richard Allen and Edwin Meese. The Nunn-Warner Resolution, which is backed by 24 other Senators, would place general restrictions on the use of any exported AWACS. Among them: no third country would have access to the technology or the information gathered without U.S. consent, all data must be continuously shared with the U.S., and the planes would...
...Beryl Sprinkel tried to get his boss to soften the rhetoric. Regan, however, refused to include in his speeches the suggested changes dictated over the phone by Sprinkel's office. At week's end it became clearer why Regan seemed so sure of his footing. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese told the Business Council at a meeting in Hot Springs, Va., that the President agrees with his Treasury Secretary on the need for the Fed to increase the money supply slightly...