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Crimson reporters traversed the building in search of the committee's meeting and located it in the Back Bay room. To avoid suspicion, they quickly left the floor. But by the time one intrepid journalist used a stairwell to return to the hallway adjacent to the conference room, a stern man with folded arms and wearing a black suit had been posted outside the meeting. The reporter evaded the guard's queries, but to no avail. In the hotel lobby, an employee dressed in a pristine uniform approached the journalist and asked him if he was a guest...
Former Cabinet aides report Margaret Thatcher is suffering from depression brought on by withdrawal from power. While the ousted British Prime Minister seemed her old intrepid self on a visit to Washington two weeks ago, a number of close friends say she has decided to give up her seat in Parliament after holding it for 31 years. In the weeks after she lost the premiership, Thatcher took comfort in the fact that protege John Major succeeded her, and she hoped to exercise wide influence over post-gulf war policy. Major has largely backed away from Thatcherism, however, and has done...
...Wednesday, our intrepid reporter photographed Stone emerging from the closed-door meeting in New York. "Take his film," Stone commanded a startled nearby security officer, momentarily forgetting about that pesky old Bill of Rights...
That fact did not prevent the Iraqis from closing down the CNN line 16 hours after the first cruise missile landed in Baghdad. But one of the network's intrepid reporters was the first back on the air the next day when the broadcasts -- this time censored -- were resumed. And when two CNN correspondents decided to depart Iraq (leaving a crew of three behind), CNN's new prestige was made clear. Not only did the Iraqi authorities ease their way to the Jordanian border, but Jordan's King Hussein himself called his border guards and ordered that...
...starry offer was made by Space Travel Services Corp., a company formed by three Houston space enthusiasts who hope to serve as travel agents for intrepid souls who want to go out of this world. Soviet officials confirmed that a letter of intent to take on an American passenger has been signed with an intermediary for the Texas firm...