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Virgil and Toni Sickmann of Krakow, Mo., the parents of Hostage Rodney Sickmann, give fewer interviews since KMOX-TV, the CBS affiliate in St. Louis, had a telephone installed near the couple's driveway without asking their permission. Says Mrs. Sickmann: "We think they owe us an apology...
With considerably more grace than Baumer, John Paul cited the 450th anni versary and told a gathering of Lutheran leaders that Catholics must take their share of the blame for Luther's great schism: "We must do what unites. We owe that to God and the world." But when Lutheran Bishop Eduard Lohse pressed bluntly for joint Communion, John Paul said that full doctrinal agreement must come first...
...rule, enacted in July by the Office of Management and Budget "reduces the share of what the government pays," Richard G. Leahy, associate dean for resources, said Tuesday. "If we audited last year's costs by the new rules the government would owe us less money," Leahy added...
Wearing a funereal black suit and speaking from the well of the chamber, Myers did not deny taking the money. Said he: "I owe this House an apology for my action." But he insisted that accepting the money was "strictly playacting" because he never intended to do anything in return. He complained: "I was set up from the word go." In one meeting with the sheik's intermediary, Myers said, "I was intoxicated. I was drinking FBI bourbon." Myers, a former longshoreman, contended that he was not used to hard liquor. Turning bitter, he charged that...
...faith never wavered, but neither did it save him from dipsomaniacal binges. He asked Author Nancy Mitford, a favorite correspondent: "Did I ever come to visit you again after my first sober afternoon. If so, I presume I owe you flowers." As he ruefully described the times he was "d.d." (disgustingly drunk) in his letters, Waugh made himself one of his better comic characters: "I got to my train d.d. and it was the Cheltenham Flier full of respectable stockbrokers . . . and I walked down the train picking up all the mens hats and looking inside and saying: 'People...