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...Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) to the Urban League's annual conference. He invited Coretta Scott King to the convention, and she sat with the vice president's wife. Benjamin Hooks, the NAACP's executive director, spoke from the GOP podium--in prime time--and Black Republicans from Maryland Senate candidate Alan Keyes '72 to former Transportation Secretary William Coleman were presented to the nation...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Reagan's Legacy Continues | 8/19/1988 | See Source »

...Texas Gulf Coast one day last September, volunteers collected 307 tons of litter, two-thirds of which was plastic, including 31,733 bags, 30,295 bottles and 15,631 six-pack yokes. Plastic trash is being found far out to sea. On a four-day trip from Maryland to Florida that ranged 100 miles offshore, John Hardy, an Oregon State University marine biologist, spotted "Styrofoam and other plastic on the surface, most of the whole cruise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Dirty Seas | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

Going to the hoop-la. Football metaphors were in the ascendant during the convention (Dukakis: "Every team has to have a quarterback. That's the nominee"), but rangy basketball players posted up and down the convention floor. Four former professional B-ball players were delegates. Maryland Congressman Tom McMillen (6 ft. 11 in.) played for the Washington Bullets. Walt Bellamy (6 ft. 11 in.), a Jackson delegate from Georgia, played center for the Atlanta Hawks, among others. Arizona Congressman Morris Udall (6 ft. 5 in.) played one year for the Denver Nuggets. New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats True-Life Tales from the Omni | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...early afternoon, Reagan was on a conference call flung from Catoctin Mountain through Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia to his top people. The size of the tragedy was known by then. "I want a statement sent to Iran that we deeply regret this incident," he said simply. Later, when there was quibbling whether "regret" was an apology, Reagan ended the argument. "It's an apology as far as I am concerned. We're a moral nation, and we take responsibility for our mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Reagan on a Roller Coaster | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...especially hard hit. Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association published a survey of U.S. regional trauma systems that came up with a disturbing diagnosis. Twenty- two years after the National Academy of Sciences declared that trauma was the "neglected disease of modern society," only two states, Maryland and Virginia, have set up acceptable statewide systems. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia either have incomplete coverage or lack essential components; the remaining 29 states have not yet set up formal systems. Says Dr. John West of the University of California at Irvine, an author of the J.A.M.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trauma Care on the Critical List | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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