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...fundamental question like that in a few months. It's not like changing your shirt. " His critics, however, are skeptical Ryan warned Quebeckers last week that they could expect another four years "on the tightrope of uncertainty and confrontation." Canada's Health and Welfare Minister Monique Bé gin, a political ally of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, called Lévesque "a wolf in sheep's clothing" and asserted flatly that "Lévesque cannot be trusted to keep his word...
...rate, the new rules make World Cup scoring more complicated than triple-decker gin rummy. The most important change is to carefully limit the number of points a skier may score in one event. After reaching the maximum in that event, he must compete in one or both of the others to continue to score. Thus Phil Mahre, whose best downhill showing of the season was a ninth place on Kitzbühel's difficult Hahnenkamm course, nonetheless has an advantage over skiers who do not take the risk. Stenmark decided this season that he needed those extra points...
...crowded room, sometimes used for official executive statements, but more often as a lounge for overweight television technicians, you look casual and hope no one asks you whom you came to see. Then again, no one seems interested, as the cameramen watch soap operas and the newspaper correspondents play gin back near the soda machines and telephones. On the lectern, behind which Reagan will stand many times over the next four years, someone has taped 36 cents--a reference to the visual aid the president used the previous evening in his nationwide speech. Two reporters read the attached message aloud...
...western-style revolvers and nine blank rounds for mock shootouts. At some places, mostly for atmosphere, there are signs announcing NO GUNS, NO KNIVES. NO TIES. For down-the-hatch topers, Chicago's Rodeo offers a selection of booze that includes Redeye whisky, Rotgut Scotch, Panther gin and Snakebite vodka; Rodeo also claims to be the city's largest Budweiser outlet after Wrigley Field. Manhattan's Lone Star Cafe boasts the sizzlingest made-to-order chili east of the Pecos, but attracts a relatively cool clientele To be sure, says Maryann Smith, 34, the entertainment coordinator, "some...
...shootings and the economic crisis are bound to create further fissures in Be gin's fragile government. Hurvitz already has hinted that he might pull out of the Likud coalition and take his tiny La'am Party with him. Says one Begin aide...