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...subject was how the U.S. should counter menacing Communist moves on a Caribbean island. The President's advisers were sorely perplexed: every idea they could think of posed the gravest dangers. But in the end they hit on a successful course of action, and a partial record of how it evolved came to light last week. Timed with inadvertent irony as American troops were invading Grenada, the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston released tapes and transcripts of two meetings between J.F.K. and his top aides at the start of the Cuban missile crisis 21 years...
Savitch became increasingly isolated after the tragedy, and her career seemed to stall. She took a partial leave from NBC to host the PBS program Frontline, and later lost her Saturday anchor slot. There were rumors that she had turned to cocaine to fuel her still relentless pace. Friends deny it. "Work is my narcotic. I get high from it," she told a colleague. But some fellow workers wondered, notably after she slurred words and stammered on a recent Digest spot...
Using slides to illustrate his 90 minute presentation, Sagan said that following a nuclear war the earth would experience a dramatic drop in intercontinental temperatures, the partial destruction of the ozone layer, and the virtual ceasing of photosynthesis of green plants in the northern hemisphere...
...sect that broke away from Islam in the 11th century. They are angry both because they have never had a fair share of political power in Lebanon and because the Christian militias moved forcibly into their mountainous region as soon as the Israeli forces had staged a partial withdrawal from Lebanon almost two months ago. Equally resentful of the Marines' presence are the Shi'ite Muslims, who are also fighting for a greater share of political power. The recent sniping deaths of U.S. Marines are believed to have been the work of Shi'ites who live in the squalid neighborhoods...
...month the two were married. She said her job at Seagram, developing a strategic plan for its wine business, culminated last month with Seagram's announcement of plans to buy Coca-Cola's Wine Spectrum division for about $200 million. But Cunningham's efforts to take partial credit for the purchase were met with skepticism from some industry observers. Moreover, Seagram Chairman Edgar Bronfman says of the purchase in an interview in the Oct. 15 issue of Impact, a trade publication: "It was my idea." But Cunningham brushed aside those criticisms. Said she: "The plan has taken...