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Even when a part number on invoices correctly identifies the material in a crate as a banned military item, Customs agents have no easy way of knowing it. The Treasury Department does not have a formal arrangement with the Defense Department to verify that the parts numbers are on lists of contraband items. Says a Customs agent in Washington: "Usually, I call a friend at the Pentagon and ask him to look up the numbers for me as a favor...
There are moments in American life when events lurch out of context, when the public is hurtled from dim awareness of a seemingly trivial news item into a maelstrom of moral reappraisal. That appears to be happening in the affair that the Washington press corps has predictably dubbed "Debategate...
...still, humid air of a capital without much news, reporters sniffed the sweet scent of skulduggery. At first a novelty item, the story grew into a revelation and took on a vitality almost irrespective of its merits...
Stories from the outside world-Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov's letter on nuclear armaments, budget cuts for the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, the new president of the National Education Association-somehow ended up dragging Reagan into view. Even a tiny item about Ronald Bricker, the unemployed steelworker for whom Reagan got a job at Radio Shack back in April, turned out to be less about Bricker than Reagan. Bricker quit Radio Shack because he was recalled to his better-paying steel job. A double Reagan cheer...
...vast, neoclassical chamber in the Great Kremlin Palace. As the 1,500 delegates of the Supreme Soviet rose to their feet to deliver a tumult of applause, Yuri Andropov's strained face stared ahead without a smile. Hurriedly, the leadership pushed through the session's most important item of business. After an effusive nominating speech by Konstantin Chernenko, Andropov's principal rival on the Politburo, the delegates voted unanimously to confer upon Andropov the ceremonial but authoritative post of President of the Soviet Union...