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...Labor has functioned as something of a joke, breeding acrimony and indecision. Its foreign policy has been contradictory. Peres proposed swapping land for peace; Shamir insisted on both peace and territory. Says Dore Gold of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv: "Imagine Richard Nixon and George McGovern in the same Cabinet trying to negotiate the Paris peace talks ((with Viet...
Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman Patricia McGovern (D-Lawrence), who will oversee the Senate's budget-cutting drive, has already said new taxes are inevitable...
...mount to $10 billion or more, probably surpassing the losses from Hurricane Hugo. Throughout the quake zone, residents awoke to a crazy quilt of destruction in which some buildings were leveled while neighboring structures survived intact. In San Juan Bautista the 125-year-old home of restaurant consultant Becky McGovern is situated only 100 ft. from the San Andreas fault. Although it bounced "from one side to the other," the house did not fall down. At Mariposa House Restaurant in the same town, owner Barbara Kuhl said her building "did the Shimmy, Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop, but we didn...
...columns snapped like raw spaghetti under the multimillion-pound weight of the four-lane upper roadway. Some construction experts last week expressed outrage that the steel rods inside the columns had not been reinforced to help them withstand a powerful quake. Said Peter Lehrer, co-chairman of the Lehrer McGovern Bovis construction firm, which managed the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island: "There is no excuse for what happened on the Nimitz. We have had the technology to guard against this sort of collapse for years...
JOHNNY HANDSOME (Mickey Rourke) has the face of the Elephant Man and the brain of a perverse computer. Now all he needs to take his revenge on some suave double-crossers is a little plastic surgery. Walter Hill's thriller boasts a sturdy cast (Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth McGovern) and a ripe sense of criminal ambiguity. Neat work...