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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Preoccupied with domestic economic problems since the Inauguration, the Reagan Administration of necessity last week turned its attention to foreign policy. Important visitors-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet and Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir-were in Washington to get acquainted with the new Administration. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev was speaking out in Moscow, giving his first-and unexpectedly moderate-response to Ronald Reagan's tough anti-Communist talk. Congress, as well as some of America's allies, was beginning to ask troublesome questions about whether the Administration's desire...
Jurors re-enact the crime and find Jean Harris guilty...
...story was a classic one: a jealous woman, a man who done her wrong, a gun, a struggle, and a question of where to put the blame in a blizzard of passion. It happens every day on television, in films, even in real life. But the trial of Jean Harris, 57, accused of murdering Scarsdale Diet Doctor Herman Tarnower, 69, assumed the proportions of a national melodrama. During the three-month trial, as her precious privacy and guarded respectability were stripped away, the pitiably proud former headmistress of Virginia's Madeira School for girls became the centerpiece...
...Aurnou, 47, was emotional and dramatic. "Don't let Dr. Tarnower's life itself be tarnished!" he shouted. "Don't say he died as a result of a homicidal rage, of some sordid affair. Restore the dignity of Dr. Tarnower, who himself died trying to save Jean Harris." He ended his impassioned plea by quoting a poem of Edna St. Vincent Millay: "I miss him in the weeping of the rain...
...used two tables to simulate the bed," recalls Marian West, an administrative assistant for a community service program. Von Glahn, donning the bloodstained pajama top, played the doctor, as other jurors came at him with the actual gun. "We did it many, many times," said one. "It was Jean Harris' testimony that convicted her," said Marie Jackson, a clerical worker. "We tried it like it was told. We couldn't see how he could have come in back of her and gotten shot in the hand. If there was a struggle over the gun, someone else would have...