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...punter Jenn Corbett and Steve Karol will hold their own at linebacker. The experienced defense may be able to offset the Big Green's green offensive line Look for some baseball scores to come out of Hanover this fall, and maybe a league champion...
Improbably, all the candidates conclude that the way to win the editorship is to come up with the Big Story. Despite so much interoffice sex that it is a wonder the paper ever comes out, Weinraub's tale sprints to its end as smoothly as a web offset press. Bylines is too gussied up with made-for-television passion and greed to resemble life at a big-city newspaper. The unlikely competition for the naked and dead editor's job does, however, neatly bear out the second rule of journalism: you're only as good as your...
Chadian President Hissene Habré, too, looked to France for aid, particularly air support to offset the dominance of Libyan aircraft over northern Chad. Said Information Minister Soumalia Mahamat: "French airpower is indispensable against Libyan airpower." He also appealed for the use of French combat forces. "If French troops are here merely as instructors," he argued, "it doesn't matter whether there...
...managed by profitmaking companies [July 4] raises a serious question: How will public facilities survive? Public hospitals are forced to accept Medicaid and indigent patients; private hospitals do so only to a nominal degree. Consequently, public hospitals need profits from well-to-do and well-insured patients to offset the large losses that Medicaid and nonpaying people generate. If these profits go instead to private hospitals, then a tax to support the public hospital is the only answer...
Another legislative battle on the Administration's agenda has been sidestepped. Illinois Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, revealed that Congress would not try to pass a major tax bill this year to offset the projected $200 billion federal deficit. He said there was no point in drafting such a bill, since the Administration is no longer pushing its plan to propose contingency tax measures that would go into effect in late 1985 if needed to reduce the burgeoning deficit. The gathering economic recovery reduces the need for new taxes. Even so, dropping...