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...mildest of distractions may have been the handful of the 11,500 spectators usually concerned with the fortunes of the men's basketball team...
...spread of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe. The actual walkout from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks had occurred the previous day at a 25-minute meeting in Geneva between Chief Soviet Arms Negotiator Yuli Kvitsinsky and his U.S. counterpart, Paul Nitze. Kvitsinsky had put the mildest face possible on the decision, saying only that the Soviets were "discontinuing the present round of talks" and would not be able to agree to a resumption date...
Juvenile behavior is only the mildest manifestation of the ingrained belief on both sides of the Blue-Crimson line that the other side is the incarnation of Evil. And the fact remains that the most recent evidence of genuinely evil inspiration came in 1978, when electrical wires were discovered in Soldiers Field the week before the Game...
...reprimand-an official statement of disapproval-is the House's mildest form of punishment for serious misconduct by members. The committee found that in both cases the sex had not been coerced. Still, it made the obvious point that "any sexual relationship between a member of the House of Representatives and a congressional page, or any sexual advance by a member to a page, represents a serious breach of duty." Given the "special responsibility" of Congress toward the young, vulnerable pages, said Joseph Califano Jr., special counsel to the committee, which is also probing drug use on the Hill...
...ordinary psychopath. Stegman (Timothy Van Patten) is also a musical prodigy: as he directs a gang rape of the hero's wife he whistles the first bars from Johann Strauss's giddy Voices of Spring waltz. All this is enough to make even the mildest of men, Music Teacher Andy Norris (Perry King), reeeally mad, mad enough to set one of the gang members aflame, smash a second with a tire iron and drive a buzz saw through the spine of a third...