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...bomb hidden in a parked car in front of Syria's air force headquarters blew up, killing 20 and wounding 50. The air force building and an adjacent hospital were heavily damaged. A man who drove the car to the building was shot to death while trying to flee. No one claimed responsibility...
...Claudette Colbert, and even this most unactressy of actresses was suffering an attack of nerves. On the morning of the day her new play, a suspense comedy titled A Talent for Murder, opened in Washington, D.C., the fire alarms rang in her hotel and everyone was ordered to flee the building. She scurried around, picking up valuables and trying to coax Bijou, the cat, from under the bed. By the time Bijou was out, the gongs were silent -false alarm-but the damage was done. "I was shaking for 20 minutes," she explained later...
...chance of being passed by Congress is bail reform. The task force suggests that judges be allowed to consider the "dangerousness" of a defendant before setting him free on bail; in general, judges are now supposed to base their bail decisions only on the likelihood that the accused will flee. Congress is also likely to be sympathetic toward the panel's recommendation that guidelines be set for sentencing and that parole be abolished. No longer would sentences vary wildly from judge to judge for similar crimes, and criminals serving lengthy prison terms would not be set loose after just...
...what they yearn to shout is that the former boss and the gossip columnist are the putrescence of the earth, that they have the grace of herring, the brains of rock stars, that their faces would sink a fleet. They do not say so, of course. Instead, their minds flee their true feelings like panicked belles, skittering over perfectly decent invectives, settling finally on the gray ruins of politeness...
Actually, there is no good reason for the Executive Branch of Government to be any more self-conscious about taking time off than either of the other two branches. The Supreme Court manages to flee Washington for the entire summer every year without a writ of apology, and Congress, as usual, has scattered until September. All this exiting has had a refreshing effect on life in the capital city, if not on its weather. Traffic flows; restaurants offer a table. The first drafts for all proposed budgets for FY 1983 are due at the Office of Management and Budget...