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Still, the Senate committee's final statement on Casey was a compromise. Some Senators, including Washington's Henry Jackson, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and Rhode Island's John Chafee, had urged the committee to express its "absolute confidence" in Casey. Others, including Goldwater, New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, wanted to avoid any pronouncement until the investigation of Casey's background was complete. Instead, the committee found him merely "not unfit" to continue...
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...nothing new, actually. Since the days when Woodrow Wilson sold out the Irish for David Lloyd George's support at Versailles, it's been the same story. As Andrew Greeley writes in his new book, The Irish Americans. "The American Irish were never able to persuade their government or their nation's cultural elite of the moral rightness of their cause. ...Concern for human rights in Rhodesia, Chile and Franco's Spain has in recent times all but obsessed the nation's intellectual and cultural elite. The issue of human rights in Ireland, however, even today scarcely gains any notice...
...Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Mandlikova is a player of vast talent and athleticism who has trouble harnessing her gifts and keeping her concentration. When she is good, as she was against Navratilova, no one can stay on the court with her; when she is bad, as she was against Evert Lloyd, most of the top players can beat...
Since bursting on the scene at 16, Evert Lloyd, now 26, has won five U.S. Open championships, three Wimbledons and, by any measure, dominated the sport. On clay, her preferred surface, she has had winning streaks of 125 and 64 matches. At various times in her career, she has been adored as a teen-age wonder, reviled as an unbeatable superstar and written off as a burnt-out case. Through it all, she has borne herself with grace and played impeccably. For the few moments that she stood on Centre Court, the championship salver held high overhead, Wimbledon was able...