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During an earlier silent auction guests bid on such items as a German translation of The Hotel New Hampshire, autographed by author John living, and a deep-sea fishing trip off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
The district includes three distinct sections: the traditionally Democratic blue-collar New Bedford area, which still depends on commercial fishing for much of its livelihood; the more conservative and more elderly constituency on Cape Cod; and the affluent liberal suburbs to the southeast of Boston.
All six of the defendants are resident aliens of Portuguese descent. Some speak English only haltingly, and they wear earphones to hear a Portuguese translation of the proceedings. Their background has tugged hard at the seams of ethnic tranquillity in New Bedford, a onetime whaling capital and mill town that...
The Soviets understand the motivations behind Washington's mild talk. While they are probably realistic enough to know they cannot do much to damage Reagan politically, they do not want to do him any favors either. Says Arnold Horelick, formerly the CIA's top Kremlinologist, now director of...
Barich embellishes the moment ("It was like somebody weeping in a darkened the ater long after the movie's ended"), and the effect is corny, but nice, like a good fishing trip. His race-track humor slides in and out of straight-faced paragraphs so deftly you hardly realize...