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Patty was a composed witness, meeting the questions headon, never saying too much in reply and thus giving the prosecutor a new lead. At one point, Browning took up a line of questioning that seemed to work for Patty rather than against her. He got her to repeat in more detail earlier testimony in which she told how she had been sexually molested by Donald DeFreeze, the self-styled "field marshal" of the S.L.A. who was known as "Cinque." Asked Browning: "Did he pinch one or both of your breasts...
...SONNY AND CHER SHOW (CBS, Sunday, 8 p.m. E.S.T.) represents a triumph over adversity. They are divorced, she is carrying another man's child, and somehow they manage to put together a very engaging première. In part, they do so because they confronted headon, with the right blend of edginess and good humor, their slightly grotesque circumstances. They will probably do more for the cause of amicable separation than all the Norman Lears...
...Marcos' curious attributes is his refusal to become emotional or defensive when accused of dictatorial methods. He does not meet criticism or serious problems headon, but either lets them peter out or attacks them from the side. Thus Marcos has adopted a strangely non-confrontational approach to the Moslem insurgency movement in the southern Philippines. He refused to allow the military an untrammeled hand in putting down the revolt and agreed to recognize the Moro National Liberation Front. Then he undercut its leadership by coaxing Moslem local field commanders into surrendering with generous amnesty conditions and promises of "utmost...
Instead of attacking Ford headon, Reagan is trying to identify him indirectly as part of "the problem in Washington." Reagan promises "a program of creative federalism for America's third century." As outlined recently in a speech to businessmen in Chicago, his program seems both superficial and unworkable-one reason why some Republicans question whether he has the intellectual capacity to serve as President. He pledges to turn over to state and local governments many of the health, education and welfare responsibilities now borne by the Federal Government. Such a transfer, he predicts, would cut $90 billion from federal...
That is one way the family surmounts crises: each member faces problems headon. Betty Ford has been the most badly hit, during the past year, by the discovery of a cancerous tumor that required removal of her right breast last September. But aside from a regimen of daily pills for one week out of every six, she has been able to ignore the disease and it has made no reappearance since her operation. She also suffers from a painful arthritic back, but even that rarely darkens her spirits. Despite her husband's mammoth work load, she finds that...