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...view became the prism through which he interpreted the night's returns. Other than a few individual disappointments ("Gosh darn it," he muttered when Nebraska Governor Charles Thone lost), Reagan was satisfied with the results. "There was nothing to suggest a need to change the basic course," said Counsellor Edwin Meese, expressing Reagan's sentiments...
...however, no one of these conditions alone caused his death. Even so, his passing would have been unremarkable were it not for the difficult, dangerous crusade that Mulcahy had pursued for the past six years. Almost singlehanded, he had persuaded the Government to investigate and prosecute Frank Terpil and Edwin Wilson, two former CIA employees who made fortunes during the 1970s outfitting terrorist squads from Londonderry to Libya. Terpil remains a fugitive, but Wilson goes on trial this month, and Mulcahy, who worked for the pair in 1976, was to have testified against...
...1970s Mulcahy had managed to pull himself together. Then he ran into Edwin Wilson; Mulcahy signed on with Wilson's Washington-based arms-export firm. For a time, Mulcahy thought the company was a sub rosa CIA enterprise...
...judge has encountered similar difficulties getting government witnesses to the stand. The White House eventually consented to allow Gen. Thomas K. Turnage, director of selective service, to testify--under very limited conditions. But it has blocked repeated efforts by Hatter to get testimony from Edwin Meese III, counselor to the President and apparently the high official shaping draft registration policy...
...Courbet looked very hard and had a method," Welliver remarks to the writer Edwin Denby in the catalogue. "Bierstadt did not look very hard and had a method, and de Kooning makes it up as he goes along ... I look very hard, then make it up as I go along." The idea of "sub lime" American landscape is fairly worn currency by now; there are too many generalized cliches of in stant grandeur attached to it. What saves Welliver's sense of awe at large scale is his sense of fact...