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...list now contains dozens of former city officials, like his one time deputy mayor Herman Badillo ("You worry about Herman because even when he is your friend he can do terrible things"), and a legion of rivals and hecklers Koch dismisses as "wackos...
...accurate." That kind of advice infuriates the anti-drunken-driving activists. "Drunk driving is a multimillion-dollar business for lawyers," says an angry Doris Aiken, founder of Remove Intoxicated Drivers (RID). She has some advice of her own for the new legion of legal specialists. "The best thing a lawyer can do for the drunk driver," she says, "is to tell him to face the music, and not go after a big fee to get him off." - By Michael S. Serrill...
Nudged by the State Department, Reagan was beginning to reconsider the zero option. In his State of the Union message on Jan. 25, 1983, he had hinted that other approaches were negotiable. In a speech to the American Legion in February, which was drafted largely by the State Department and bitterly opposed by the Pentagon, Reagan outlined the criteria for an agreement other than the zero option. But not until March 30, after Kohl had resoundingly won the elections in West Germany, did Reagan formally embrace the State Department's interim
...commander of that force majeure, and of the Second Fleet, was Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III, Annapolis-trained ('51) and a recipient of the Legion of Merit. He made no secret of the fact that he was responsible for the censorship-and made no apologies either. Said Metcalf to protesting reporters: "I'm down here to take an island. I don't need you running around and getting in the way." And to anyone who tried it, he added a personal shot across the bows: "We'll stop you. We've got the means...
Giap himself states the Vietminh military strategy, "...in war we have to win, absolutely have to win." The episode finishes with the precarious Geneva Accords of 1954, and closes after a story about the French Legionaires landing at Dien Bien Phu. After the legionaires patriotically sing their Legion song, a cadre of Vietnamese respond by chanting La Marseillaise having no song of their...