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...same time, other Administration sources fed the press reports that another "fall offensive" was in the works on the domestic front, with tax reform and Star Wars its primary objectives. (Some reporters questioned the Administration's terminology, noting that last-ditch efforts to salvage imperiled initiatives would be more defensive than offensive in nature...
...Ramona Africa and Theresa Brooks Africa -- with parole violation, contempt of court, illegal possession of firearms, and making terroristic threats. To facilitate the execution of the warrants, authorities on Sunday cordoned off five blocks around the Move house and ordered the evacuation of 300 people by 10 that night. Last-ditch efforts to negotiate a peaceful resolution were made Sunday by Bennie Swans, director of Philadelphia's Crisis Intervention Network. The Move group, he said, insisted they would cooperate with the authorities only after their nine comrades were released from prison. As the hours passed, the chances of an armed...
...with nothing worse that a last-ditch counter attack from Canadian air-masses to worry about, this season's trends have devoted themselves to more fun-to-wear garb. Which is all the better, since few people want to glance at lovely young ladies clad in stormwindows...
...meeting of the eight-member executive board of the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) at Lausanne's ornate Palace Hotel last week was billed as a last-ditch attempt to persuade the Soviet Union to reconsider its boycott of this summer's Olympic Games in Los Angeles. But the effort was over before it began. Conferring privately the evening before the meeting, Los Angeles Olympic Organizer Peter Ueberroth and Soviet Sports Chief Marat Gramov found themselves in accord on one point and not much else. Said Ueberroth: "It would be misleading to suggest that we came even an inch...
...ability of our diplomats to negotiate, encouraged more intransigence from the Syrians, and prolonged the violence." It is not necessary to evaluate thoroughly American policy objectives in the Middle East to see that the Administration's program was handicapped by far more than public outcry. The President's last-ditch attempt to find a scapegoat for his fiasco betrays an awareness of the magnitude of his blunder...