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...bordered by Jamaica Bay to the south, Spring Creek Park to the west, Kennedy Airport to the east and a highway to the north. Along Cross Bay Boulevard, the community's main artery, clam bars and pizza parlors contend for local business, while above the street sea gulls lazily flap their wings. Most of Howard Beach's inhabitants are Italians, and its older section feels more like a slightly run-down seaside resort than a corner of the nation's largest city. To ensure safety and enforce quiet, householders pay $220 a year to maintain a private security force...
...reference to intelligence was clearly a jab at Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, with whom Jackson met for 45 minutes. Nakasone's infamous remarks last September about intelligence levels in the U.S. being lower than Japan's because of black and Hispanic Americans set off a stormy flap that in Jackson's words "will not go back...
...Rudy Sibilio, the assistant superintendent of state office buildings, insisted it had nothing to do with Clapp's flap...
Vice President George Bush has kept quiet since Election Day, four weeks ago, avoiding any public comment on the arms-hostages-contra flap. Last Friday he broke his silence in a 45-minute telephone interview from his vacation home in Kennebunkport, Me., with Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott and White House Correspondent Barrett Seaman...
...Reagan Administration copes with its burgeoning scandal, pundits are + facing a minor but nonetheless sticky problem of their own: what to call it. Ever since Watergate, the suffix -gate has been used to label virtually any hint of governmental wrongdoing (from the Koreagate bribery scandal to Lancegate, the flap over President Carter's former Budget Director). News of secret U.S. arms shipments to Iran was initially dubbed, unsurprisingly, Irangate. But as the scandal has broadened, the nicknames have multiplied: Armsgate, Contragate, Budgate (for McFarlane), Northgate (for Oliver...