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Early on the morning of Aug. 28, PFC Joseph White of St. Louis was on duty, assigned to scan the North Korean frontier just 15 yds. away. Some time before dawn, White walked out to the chain-link fence surrounding Guard Post Ouellette, blasted the lock on the gate (probably with his M16) and scurried north. About 7:20 a.m., an Army comrade spotted him on the other side of the rugged no-man's land: still carrying his rifle, the blond G.I. was grabbed by a squad of North Koreans and hustled down into their bunker...
Despite the possible resolution of the Cities Service crisis, Wall Street is still bitter toward Gulf. Grumbles one trader: "How does a company with Gulfs standing in the corporate community dare to lock itself into a $5 billion deal and then change its mind?" Ironically, Gulf was originally cast as the hero in the Cities Service drama. In June Cities Service was trying to escape an unwanted takeover bid by Mesa Petroleum, a relatively small Amarillo, Texas, oil firm. Unwilling to be controlled by a company less than one-twentieth its size, Cities welcomed Gulfs merger bid of $5 billion...
Mazursky's best films-Blume in Love and An Unmarried Woman-had a lock on the '70s sensibility. This, one could feel, was the way the American upper middle class attempted to face the new demands of sexual and racial equality. And this was the way a sympathetic comic artist, reporting from the inside of the analysand wonderland, could transform these demands and dreams into engaging movie narratives. But when Mazursky tries to Say It All about modern life, his voice can turn strident. His valued collaborators, the actors, can lose their charm and become stick figures, animated...
...cans, mixed with hops, barley and malt." But while such a political position may play well in Milwaukee, it raises a far more serious question in what could become an increasingly shrill national debate: Should any single state, or group of states, be able to put a lock on what could be regarded as a national resource? The new water sheiks of the Midwest would probably answer with a resounding yes, but the rest of the country may take another view. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Lee Griggs/Des Moines
...budget proposals that Reagan presented in February. The balanced-budget amendment allows Congress and the President to reassure voters that they are, at bottom, all for fiscal responsibility. Says Democratic Congressman James Shannon of Massachusetts: "It's like getting drunk and going to the police and saying, 'Lock me up, I can't help myself...