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This gradual shift of attitudes has been reported out of Moscow, accompanied by an escort of journalistic cautions. Life in Moscow is a postgraduate course in skepticism for correspondents. When Gorbachev telephoned Sakharov in December to free him from nearly seven years of internal exile in Gorky, most of the initial speculation saw it as primarily a propaganda stunt for foreign consumption. The press corps in Moscow reminded everybody that the Gulags are still full and dissidents who are Soviet Jews have a hard time emigrating. Then came the op-ed page experts, asserting that change in the Evil Empire...
...testimony seemed a bit, well, schizophrenic. Appearing on behalf of John Hinckley, who attempted in 1981 to assassinate President Reagan, Psychiatrist Glenn Miller said the patient had improved enough during his five years in St. Elizabeths, a Washington mental hospital, to visit his parents without an escort. But at the same time Miller almost casually noted that Hinckley's "judgment is not perfect." Asked for examples by Hinckley's lawyer, Miller testified that the patient had written to convicted Mass Murderer Theodore Bundy expressing sympathy "for the awful position that Bundy must be in." Hinckley had also received a letter...
...some $3 billion could be saved from the cost of the two carriers, estimated at $10.5 billion if begun in the 1990s. But a General Accounting Office study this month put the saving at only $700 million. Critics of the Navy noted that the cost of aircraft, missiles and escort ships pushes the total price for the two vessels up to $36 billion. Even as replacements, the two new carriers would cut heavily into the Navy's ability to provide the manpower, maintenance and operating funds required by its expanding fleet...
...leave the embassy compound unless accompanied by another American, and they could not stay out overnight. But Soviet drivers claim they often took Marines to parties at foreign compounds and brought them back as late as 6 a.m. Americans visiting the embassy recall being asked by Marines to escort them past the entrance. One American woman said she twice drove a Marine to visit what he called his "Finnish girlfriend." But, she said, "the place was some sort of Soviet institute, so I suspect the girlfriend was Russian." Another way for the Marines to get out was to "apartment...
...enraptured crowd claps excitedly and hurls dollars and children onto the stage while a team of bodyguards escort Jim, Charo, and Tammy to their respective limosines. Tammy is able to swipe some of the cash off the stage and exchange it for a few hits of valium before she and her entourage are scurried away to continue their work for God somewhere in the Holy Jacuzzi of their Holy Mansion. On the way out, Barbara Walters manages to get a question through to Jim Bakker...