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...them," she told TIME. "They don't realize that if they lose their last bastion in the Pacific, they cannot be a superpower here. We will not allow the U.S. to treat us shabbily." President Ronald Reagan, who has down-played human rights issues since taking office, is exempt from that resentment. "I am a fan of President Reagan," the Philippine First Lady says. "He has gotten back the credibility, prestige and friendship that America had lost...
...familiar. It has been since 1963, when Ronald Biggs, 53, and 14 others relieved a Glasgow-to-London mail train of $7.3 million in what will be forever referred to as the "Great Train Robbery." Resettled for the past dozen years in Brazil and exempt from extradition, Biggs was recently tapped by an Australian ad agency to play the Ricardo Montalban-Juan Valdez role for Café de Rio. "Living here in Rio, I have lots of coffees to choose from," says Biggs in the ad. "And when you're on the run like me, you appreciate a good...
...criteria for determining what can be sold are straightforward. Lands in the National Park and National Wildlife Refuge systems are exempt from consideration. So are Indian Trust lands and Wilderness areas, Wild and Scenic Rivers, National Trails, national conservation areas and certain other lands designated by Congress. This adds up to 400 million acres. Everything else can be put on the block. The surplus lands first will be assessed to determine their market value. Next they will be offered to other federal agencies, which may want to use them for different purposes. If there are no federal takers, the lands...
...Rozelle has been ramming his head straight into Davis and the Sherman Antitrust Act, he has also been trying end-around plays. Political football is not just an expression. The N.F.L.'s All-Stars lobbying team, featuring former Democratic National Committee Chairman Bob Strauss, is wheedling Congress to exempt the league from antitrust laws and make the exemption retroactive in Oakland's case. A slightly troubling side to this is that two new expansion franchises may soon be handed out, perhaps to Phoenix or Memphis or Birmingham or Jacksonville or Indianapolis, and Rozelle has made it pretty plain...
...Gulf of Sidra, thereby creating the impression that Reagan was not running the shop. During the President's vacations this summer, either Baker or Deaver is set to help Meese at the California White House. Meese was also responsible in part for getting the President to endorse tax-exempt status for private segregated schools, a policy that Reagan had to abandon after a loud public uproar...