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...good." He acknowledges that he had long banked on being able to drive out the larger rival Daily News, which seems unlikely. Now he accepts that "you might get the Post scratchily in the black but never rich on it." Mid-March is his deadline to sell or fold the Post, unless he can get the Government order reversed. What are his chances? A tough and crafty gambler who loves a fight, Murdoch guesses, "Less than even in Congress. Better than even in the courts...
...YORK-Newspaper union leaders and Mayor Edward I. Koch pilloried Sen. Edward M. Kennedy during a hearing yesterday at which they said the New York Post could fold if publisher Rupert Murdoch were forced to give...
...foreign policy, the Soviet Union has been checked: between 1974 and 1980, Communist forces gobbled up ten countries, from Viet Nam to Afghanistan. On our watch, they have not seized an inch more of territory, and Grenada returned to the fold of free nations...
...potential votes. In examining the right's views and the Republicans' refusal to disavow them, our historian might just be able to figure out why it is that the current structure of the political parties and primaries encourages the mainstream politicians to embrace those dangerously outside the constitutional fold...
Najibullah (like many Afghans, he uses no first name) was trying to consolidate his grip on the affairs of state, but the ground was moving beneath him. His effort to coax rebels back into the fold with offers of amnesty has failed. His army has become a demoralized shambles. Soldiers often refuse to fight and are deserting to the rebels in large numbers. Now he must face the most daunting prospect of all: a possible pullout of Soviet troops...