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Joint sessions of the Congress of the United States are rare and stately rituals, and it is rare indeed that they occur twice within a few days. This week, with a fanfare of ironies and contradictions, that ceremonial conjunction is taking place. On Tuesday, Jan. 26, President Ronald Reagan appears on Capitol Hill to deliver his State of the Union address, proclaiming once again his determination to cut back on Big Government, on Government spending and Government intervention in people's lives. Two days later, the two Houses of Congress reassemble to commemorate the 100th birthday...
Brent Musberger hosted one of the silliest parts of the CBS pre-game, a simulation that pitted the play-calling abilities of Roger Staubach against those of Terry Bradshaw. Bradshaw and Staubach were presented with various situations that could occur during the game and were asked to call defensive and offensive plays...
Several persons who have told state police they saw a car parked along Route 107 a few hours after Webster disappeared will undergo hypnosis, state police officials said. But they declined to disclose the identity of the witnesses or the hypnotist, and when the examination under hypnosis will occur...
...armed incidents along the Honduran border continue to occur, the Sandinistas have been studying the possibility of declaring an internal "state of war" that would allow the government still greater justification for military mobilization and provide a popular rallying point. Meanwhile, the danger of a real "state of war" increases as Nicaragua's armed forces grow...
...relative infrequency of earthquakes in this region in the past 200 years makes it unlikely that another one of the same magnitude will occur in the near future, John Haller, professor of Geology, said yesterday. Earthquakes in the northeast do not normally trigger a whole line of successive quakes, as they do around the Pacific Ocean, he added...