Word: feds
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Since Graham had been out of the country for a while, Brinkley crisply summed up the American reaction to Graham's trip: "That you have been royally entertained, taken around Moscow in a limousine, fed caviar three times a day, and have been 'taken in.' What is your response to that?" Graham: "David, I was not taken in." The evidence seems to be that he was, but what is of interest is the way Graham was questioned-the technique of the unbuttressed accusation disguised as a question. In television interviewing, this dubious tactic is now acceptable shorthand...
...evening, just as the nightly television news came on, a Pole fed up with the daily dose of government propaganda got out of his chair, turned his TV set toward the window and went out for a stroll. No one in Swidnik, a factory town 100 miles southeast of Warsaw, claims to know just who made that first "news-walk," but within days almost the entire population of 30,000 began to crowd the tree-lined main street for an evening promenade during the 7:30 newscast. When local authorities clamped on a 7 o'clock curfew to counter...
DIED. Romy Schneider, 43, international movie star; of "natural causes," possibly a heart attack; in Paris. Born in Austria to celebrated acting parents, Schneider made 13 West German films in her teens, mostly costume romances. Fed up with such "Shirley Tempelhof" roles, she moved to France and acted parts from comedy to sultry mystery in dozens more flicks shot in Europe (Boccaccio '70) and a few in the U.S. (What's New Pussycat?). Twice divorced, Schneider was depressed by the accidental death last July of her son David Haubenstock, 14, who was impaled on a wrought-iron fence...
Board members disagreed on whether the Federal Reserve will ease its tight money policies and let interest rates come down. Bosworth doubted it. Said he: "Right now, the Fed is just not part of this discussion. It stands on the sidelines and says, 'We don't care what you say. We're just going to sit on the money supply.' " Heller, though, argued that recent statements of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker indicate that some loosening may be coming. Said Heller: "I'm reasonably optimistic. Volcker is sounding a good deal more accommodating...
Prince Felix Yusupov believed he was saving Holy Russia too, when, after midnight on Dec. 17, 1916, he lured Rasputin to his palace and fed him cream cakes laced with cyanide. When the poison failed to take effect, the prince shot him. Left for dead on the floor, Rasputin opened one mad eye, then leaped up in an attempt to strangle his shocked assassin. Another conspirator had to fire more bullets. When the corpse was dragged out of the river near Petrovsky Bridge, water was found in the lungs. In the end, Rasputin may have drowned. Siberian peasants...