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Heir to his father's seat in this district, LoPresti has too easily succumbed to the comforts of friendship with the leadership. He has used his more than five terms to move up the senate ladder to Judiciary Chair--the third ranking Democratic post--while gradually losing touch with his constiuency...
...counselor to King Hassan II of Morocco, faced a decidedly frosty reception in Washington last week when he visited Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State George Shultz and other Administration officials. A month ago the conservative Hassan, long a staunch U.S. ally, had suddenly initiated a treaty of friendship with Libya's radical strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Washington's Public Enemy No. 1. Officially the State Department admitted to being "surprised" by the improbable marriage; privately it fumed...
...decade of swapping insults and threats with Gaddafi, had every hope of taming his mercurial new friend. In addition, said Guedira, the pact between the two countries would bolster Morocco's military strength against such inimical neighbors as Algeria and Tunisia without in any way jeopardizing its friendship with the U.S. But Administration officials, who now fear that arms and funds sent to Morocco may fall into the hands of Libya, remained unconvinced. In effect, admitted one senior official, "the U.S. read Guedira the riot...
Heir to his father's seat in this district. LoPresti has too easily succumbed to the comforts of friendship with the leadership. He has used his more than five terms to move up the senate ladder to Judiciary Chair--the third ranking Democratic post--while gradually losing touch with his constituency...
...annual summer vacation at an undisclosed location. Since then he has met with no visitors and issued no new policy statements; the Soviet public has not seen a single picture of him on holiday. The mystery deepened last week: Chernenko did not appear at closing ceremonies of the Friendship '84 Games, despite expectations that he might. ABC News reported that Chernenko, who is said to suffer from emphysema, returned to Moscow in a wheelchair and may be undergoing medical treatment, but the item could not be confirmed...