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...Quigley, a wealthy Republican whose specialty is politics, is a frequent guest on the Merv Griffin show. She has been practicing astrology since the 1960s...
Gorey, who wrote the reminiscence of Bobby Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign in this week's issue, moved to Washington for TIME in 1965. By then Bobby and Teddy Kennedy were Senators, and Gorey became a frequent visitor to Hickory Hill, Bobby's estate in Virginia. "I shared with Ethel an enthusiasm for tennis," he says. He also sometimes met with Bobby on Saturdays. "He would go to his office wearing old clothes, with his dog Brumus and kids trailing behind," Gorey recalls. "We would talk about Viet Nam and the speculation that he would challenge Lyndon Johnson...
Gorey is now a senior correspondent for TIME in Washington, but the tennis matches at Hickory Hill are less frequent. (Ethel, he reports, still plays furiously.) Gorey's fascination with the clan is undiminished. "The Kennedys were youthful, attractive and appealing," he says. "There is something riveting about a family that had so much and also suffered so much -- assassinations, accidental deaths, drug problems. Yet they are always trying, never retreating...
Police crackdowns throughout the country have had negligible impact. In a highly touted weekend-long raid of drug-dealing gangs in Los Angeles last month, police arrested 1,453 people, including 315 juveniles. Half had to be released for lack of evidence. The frequent raids in Los Angeles have provoked a backlash among civil libertarians, who accuse the police of busting any young man who happens to be black or Hispanic...
...Iranian vessel's hull. An F-14 Tomcat from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise in the Strait of Hormuz delivered a laser-guided cluster bomb that disabled the * Sabalan. Even though the Sabalan was the ship that had been targeted to be sunk by the Navy because of its frequent attacks on merchant ships in the gulf, Carlucci and Crowe ordered naval commanders not to sink the stricken vessel, hoping to limit Iranian casualties. The U.S. also damaged or destroyed three Iranian speedboats, bringing to six the total number of vessels lost by Iran...