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...Following an elaborate multimedia show, González appeared at the podium for his final pre-election speech. His intense, perspiring face was projected on a giant TV screen, erected over the center stage, that enabled the crowd to see the candidate's face from half a mile away. Dressed in a gray flannel suit and sporting fashionably long hair, González called the election "a plebiscite, which confronts the people with a choice between a Socialist government or a vacuum, because no other serious alternative has been offered to the citizens of Spain...
Rushing Leaders PlayerG Art Vos Avg Lg TD Mile Granger 7 59 239 15 14 1 Scott McCabe 558 208 11 12 2 Jack Riordan 3 27 145 54 41 1 Don Afiard 7 63 139 22 32 5 Tim McGuigan 7 34 126 11 37 1 Mike Ernst 7 20 93 47 16 0 Steve Ernst 8 24 84 35 7 0 Jim Garvey 7 16 50 31 15 0 Mark Vignali 6 10 39 39 11 0 Ron Cuccia 2 5 17 34 11 0 Brian Cooke 2 3 14 47 2 0 John O'Brien...
...Lebanon. Neither Syria nor Israel, however, wants to be the first to pull out, and Israel is asking for solid assurances that it will no longer have to worry about being attacked by P.L.O. guerrillas in southern Lebanon. Though Israel hopes to retain a military presence in a 30-mile-deep security zone in southern Lebanon, it might settle for an agreement under which the area would be patrolled by foreign peace-keeping forces. At that point, presumably, the withdrawal of Israeli, Syrian and P.L.O. soldiers could begin. A few months later, the newly expanded Lebanese army could replace...
...banner, symbolically splattered with red. Then mourners who had crammed between the gravestones raised their hands in victory signs. Workers, ranked shoulder to shoulder on the roof of a nearby building, picked up the salute, and even onlookers standing on a slag heap a quarter of a mile away joined in the silent gesture of protest. Said one mourner bitterly: "The only thing that is left to us now is the victory sign...
...supply microwave antennas to a French firm, company officials preened publicly at their achievement. The customer, Thomson-CSF, would be using the equipment to help establish a complex communications network that would serve much of the Yamal region of Soviet Siberia, where the U.S.S.R.'s vast 3,700-mile natural gas pipeline to Western Europe would originate. Then came the Reagan Administration's abrupt ban on U.S. export deals related to the pipeline, and by last summer Andrew's French connection looked broken. But the company, which first sold stock to the public...