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...Hampshire is different from other states in many aspects because of the intensity of the media attention," said Vice President George Bush's Northeast Political Director Ronald C. Kaufman. "We were gearing up much earlier in N.H." will do very well in N.H., but Sigel pointed out that N.H. "has not always been good to its neighbors," referring to Sen. Edward Kennedy's (D-Ma.) 1980 and Edward Muskie's 1972 defeats in the state...
...possible disappointment in the GOP race, especially for those in the Northeast, is Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), who early in the campaign was expected to make a strong showing, but has since faded into the pack of candidates...
...James Goldsmith, 54, got out of the market well in advance of calamity. In late August he sold his 29% share of Occidentale Generale, a $1.55 billion Paris-based holding company that controls, among other things, the Grand Union supermarket chain, French publishing interests and vast stretches of Northeast U.S. timberland. Goldsmith's profit: $450 million. Having fled the market, Goldsmith declared, "I am a spectator, and will remain a spectator for the time being." An important factor that prompted Goldsmith to bail out of the market was the stubborn U.S. trade deficit, which, he had assumed, would eventually cause...
Kuwaiti defense forces on Failaka Island, 15 miles northeast of Kuwait City, watched the Silkworm blast off from Fao and head toward the oil dock. No effort was made to shoot the missile down, as had been done with the Silkworm that hit the Sea Isle City. Late in the week, however, Kuwaiti officials announced that they were setting up U.S.-made Hawk missile batteries on Failaka, where they will be close enough to Fao to interdict the Silkworms. The Kuwaitis have had the Viet Nam-era missiles since...
...SHINING mahogany dining table at centerstage during A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room is not merely a piece of furniture to be admired, loathed, typed upon, repaired, eaten upon. It's an emblem of that vanishing privileged breed indigenous to the Northeast that is the focus of Gurney's work: the WASP...