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More than two years have passed since a movie of hers was released, but Debra Winger has had no trouble staying in the public eye. The Ohio-born actress made national headlines when she moved into the mansion with Nebraska Governor Bob Kerrey, 42, whom she had met while making Terms of Endearment. Last week she was in the news again, after marrying Actor Timothy Hutton, to the surprise of almost everyone except, of course, Hutton, plus 25 relatives and close friends who attended the Jewish ceremony at Big Sur, Calif., overlooking the Pacific. Though Winger, 30, and Hutton...
Viet Nam veterans, maturing into their 30s and 40s, have begun to achieve some power in American society. They are seen more as leaders, less as victims. Charles Robb, who commanded a Marine rifle company in 1968-69, is the Governor of Virginia. Bob Kerrey, a Congressional Medal of Honor winner who lost part of a leg in action as a member of the Seals, a Navy special forces unit, is the Governor of Nebraska. John Kerry, a Navy officer and eloquent spokesman against the war during congressional hearings in 1971, is a Senator from Massachusetts. Veteran and Writer John...
...Viet Nam experience colors almost every discussion of Central American policy. Nebraska Governor Bob Kerrey, who won a Congressional Medal of Honor and lost part of a leg fighting with the Navy SEAL commandos in Viet Nam, maintains that if memories of the ordeal in Southeast Asia were not still so strong, "we'd be in Nicaragua now." In Congress, Kerrey's fellow Democrats fret that the Administration's commitment to resist the spread of Marxist revolution throughout the isthmus could eventually bog down American troops in another endless jungle guerrilla...
RECUPERATING. Debra Winger, 29, spirited screen star and belle of Nebraska Governor Robert Kerrey; after a January hiking accident near her New Mexico home injured her back and landed her in traction; in Lincoln at the Governor's mansion. The couple met in Lincoln during the filming of Terms of Endearment...
...spirit and ideology of the party, if not perhaps to win its 1988 nomination. Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy will probably carry the flickering old liberal flame. Others have positioned themselves as potential leaders of the new breed. Among Governors, these include Lamm of Colorado, Bruce Babbitt of Arizona, Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. In the Senate there are Bumpers of Arkansas and Joseph Biden of Delaware...