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...Harry Byrd is an independent), and narrowed the Democratic margin in the House from 114 to 50, sweeping out many liberals in the process. Republicans are poised to pass conservative legislation, working hand in hand with Ronald Reagan. "We're not going to be arrogant or gloat," said South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond who, in one of the most startling shifts, will replace Kennedy as chairman of the influential Judiciary Committee, "but we're going to be determined to bring some changes that ought to be brought." His aim is nothing less, he said, than to "turn...
...Begin on that date if the deadline was not respected. But when the time came, Sadat gave every indication of being willing to wait a little longer for a possible resolution of the autonomy issue. No stranger to political troubles of his own, Sadat apparently was not about to gloat publicly over the problems of his prickly partner in the peace process...
...international impact of the ill-fated American venture was the most serious consequence of the operation. As thousands of joyful Iranians rushed again into Tehran's streets to gloat over America's discomfort, Iran edged ever closer to new economic and diplomatic collaboration with the Soviet Union, the menacing neighbor to the north that Khomeini had recently denounced. Handed an irresistible propaganda opening by Carter, the Soviet press made the most of it. TASS accused Carter of an "abortive provocation" that could have caused "mass bloodshed and the death of the hostages"?lives TASS claimed the U.S. President...
...events. But once on the road, the author restores the tired abstractions of great Western space and silence with fresh feelings of motion and flight. Both animals and men are hunted in this hard though never heartless book. The prey die with fierce dignity and the predators do not gloat...
...company. So this" -the Manhattan communications executive looked in exasperation at the small plastic box he held in one hand-"is crazy. It just doesn't make any sense that I've spent all morning twiddling this knob." Then his expression changed to a high-voltage gloat: "But look at that score!" The readout on the small, gray, liquid crystal screen said 542, which is middling-titanic for Blockbuster, the best of several mind-destroying games that can be played on the midget console. Blockbuster is a test of reflexes and anticipation; twiddling the machine's knob...