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...fibers found in Cater's hair. Police have long hinted at the importance of this "trace evidence," and last week said that their findings had been confirmed by forensic experts from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. None of this seemed to impress Defense Attorney Welcome. Said she to reporters after the hearing: "Any one of you could have killed Cater. You all have fibers in your hair...
...limousine itself is impressive--for sheer size, to begin with. It is twenty-five feet long. It is white with a red interior of crushed velvet. The back seat is ridiculously far away from the driver. It is a Lincoln Continental and it was originally made for the movie Shaft. According to Gadlock. Elvis saw the limo in the movie and then decided that he had to have it. Who knows what was going through his mind? Maybe he wanted to be part of some cool new scene. Elvis started playing roadsides all over the south, and the audiences there...
McEnroe himself dismisses these specious contentions that Jimmy Connors once used to justify his torturing of officials and using his T-2000 as a symbolic phallus to impress unfriendly fans. After making a fool of himself during a rather unexciting first-round win at Wimbledon this week, the kid from New York admitted he had erred. But as usual, he had to add an excuse, telling reporters, "I have this feeling that, God, I won the point, but they (the officials) are taking it away. When I'm an incompetent fool playing, I lose. But when they are--they just...
...from Moscow to Alaska. An editorial in the New York Times following Watson's appointment noted that it would serve as a discouragement to foreign service officers who have devoted their careers to Communist affairs but added, "Mr. Watson's service at this stage can prove useful...He has impressed Washington officials with the forceful use of (his access to President Carter) while serving as head of the general advisory committee to the President on arms control. The respect that Mr. Watson enjoys among businessmen should help the cause of ratification of the SALT II treaty. It will also impress...
...meeting with Begin early in the week, Habib went to Beirut for talks with Lebanon's President, Elias Sarkis. Then he climbed back into his black limousine for a midnight drive to Damascus, where he met for the second time with Syria's President, Hafez Assad, to impress upon him the need for restraint while trying to coax concessions that might break the negotiating impasse. Later he hopped aboard an executive Air Force jet for another shuttle to Israel. At week's end he flew to Saudi Arabia for consultations. Lips sealed on the progress...