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...Joseph Reap said the measure, which seems to have broad congressional support, might violate international agreements on protecting the dignity of foreign missions, lead to Soviet retaliation and prove counterproductive in freeing Sakharov. Said a disgusted U.S. diplomat of Congress: "Somebody ought to go up there and put a lock on that place...
...leaders in the Senate and even some of Reagan's top White House advisers are convinced that new taxes are needed to help close the nearly $200 billion annual budget deficit. Admitted Senator Paul Laxalt last week: "It would be less than honest, and unrealistic, for him to lock himself into a no-tax-increase-under-any-condition position...
...with Continental. The shock waves might extend to local companies doing business with those banks. In short, what was at stake in Continental's crisis was the stability of the entire international banking system. Said Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, a vocal opponent of the Chrysler and Lock heed rescues: "For the first time I favor a bailout. In this case it was absolutely essential...
...subjective side of the pool, California Diver Gregory Efthimios Louganis, 24, is held in such complete esteem that his Olympics may resemble a coronation more than a contest. The three-time world champion, who won a silver medal at Montreal, is considered a lock on the 3-meter springboard and merely the favorite on the 10-meter platform. His position in the sport is so proprietary that when a Soviet diver was fatally injured attempting a reverse 3½ tuck at a meet last summer, Louganis felt personally responsible for "pushing people to do these dives...
...minded louts stranded in such all-male preserves as Army barracks and boarding schools. At the beginning of the finest of them, Hardly Ever, an adolescent notes gloomily that his rugby teammates are "asthmatics, fatsos, spastics every one" and forlornly lusts after the heroine in The Rape of the Lock. By the end, he is chastely wooing a schoolgirl, while maddening his chums with lubricious tales of his "conquest." The pleasure of such stories lies in their refusal of violent climaxes. Exasperations, after all, last far longer than explosions, while survivors tend to be funnier than casualties, and often much...