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...rumors began to circulate at the Philadelphia Bulletin last Monday morning. At 3 p.m., Publisher N.S. ("Buddy") Hayden stepped to a lectern that had been hastily propped on a reporter's desk...
Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski, a Soviet-trained army general, had somberly described that reality the day before the congress adjourned. Clad as usual in full military uniform, standing ramrod-straight at the lectern, he read out a grim check list of Poland's woes: increasing consumer shortages, falling production, a crushing foreign debt, renewed strike threats. Alluding to possible unrest, and citing the party's "trust in the army," the general turned politician implied a willingness to suppress future disorders with military force...
...better chance than Labor of forming a whining coalition. At 3:30 a.m., protected by tense security men, Begin threaded his way through an adulatory crowd of 2,000 to reach the party building. His supporters sang He Will Make Peace and When the Messiah Comes. Once at the lectern, Begin contemptuously denied that the campaign had been the dirtiest in Israel's history-a frequent and accurate charge by Peres-and proclaimed, "I will form the next government." Rhythmic applause was stilled by Begin's raised hand. As for Peres, Begin said, with the arrogance that...
...often as a lounge for overweight television technicians, you look casual and hope no one asks you whom you came to see. Then again, no one seems interested, as the cameramen watch soap operas and the newspaper correspondents play gin back near the soda machines and telephones. On the lectern, behind which Reagan will stand many times over the next four years, someone has taped 36 cents--a reference to the visual aid the president used the previous evening in his nationwide speech. Two reporters read the attached message aloud, giggling: "Don't spend it all in one place. Love...
Before his flight home, Carter stood at a small lectern at Rhein-Main Air Base in Frankfurt. His face frozen in rage and his voice cracking, he declared: "The acts of barbarism that were perpetrated on our people by Iran can never be condoned. These criminal acts ought to be condemned by all law-loving, decent people of the world. It has been an abominable circumstance that will never be forgotten." He denounced the captors as "terrorists" who had committed a "despicable act of savagery." Still livid as he penned a report to the new President, while flying back across...