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...plan to begin running his foreign policy on the advice of ABC. Does the country's most prominent Democrat really want to stand behind such an invasion? The Grenada invasion not only flouted international law but also continues to be fraught with rumor and uncertainty and includes perhaps the largest cover-up operation since Watergate...
CHICAGO IS Rupert Munloch's kind of town. Ten days ago, the Australian tycoon paid $90 million to buy the Chicago Sun-Times, the nation's seventh largest newspaper and the Chicago Tribune's main rival. 'The Sun-Times reported the story on its front page, beneath a guide to the paper's memorial section in honor of George Halas. The owner and former couch of the Bears had just died. In his column that day. Pulitzer Prize-winning Sun-Times writer Mike Royko said goodbye to "a classic Chicagoan." Others in Chicago undoubtedly said goodbye to the Sun-Times...
...Harvard Russian Research Center yesterday received the largest donation since a began its special 55 million fund drive this spring...
...Olympic team's overall clothing sponsor, will provide the track and field athletes with such items as presentation suits to be worn on the victory stand. The arrangement, says Vitale, has already paid dividends in the form of a spate of new licensing contracts. One of the largest so far, from Phenix of Japan, is worth a minimum of $3.5 million to the Italian company...
...itself. Whenever the press is excluded, speculation and rumor take over. Several days after the invasion there was still determined resistance here and there, but no one knew how much, how serious or by whom. The result was vague and nagging alarm, a suspicion that the world's largest military power had trouble subduing a flyspeck island. However that impression might be dispelled later, some of the damage will linger. More important, the Administration's case for the invasion rests increasingly on the assertion that the Cubans had been attempting to transform Grenada into a sort of island...