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...life, Deford and his wife Carol daily had to hold her upside down and pound her chest and back to loosen the life-threatening mucus in her lungs. "Two thousand times I had to beat my sick child," her father recalls, "make her hurt and cry and plead - 'No, not the down ones, Daddy' - and in the end, for what...
...conflict that it needs to call on collections of wise men to do the work of Government. Republicans stop a Democratic Administration from getting arms control through Congress; then Democrats stop a Republican Administration from getting its arms (MX) through. A commission (Scowcroft's) is then convened to plead the obvious: that both are linked and must get through together or not at all. A Republican Administration wants more aid to El Salvador and a surrogate war in Nicaragua; a Democratic House tries to cut the aid and end the war; both sides prepare to blame the other...
...what I think of it." He does supply fascinating incidental information. Charles de Noailles was not only expelled from the Jockey Club for Financing "L' age Dor," but threatened with excommunication. He was saved from the latter only because his mother travelled to Rome to plead with the Pope...
Lucas, who is scheduled to be tried in Texas this week for Freida Powell's murder, has already been sentenced to 75 years, after pleading guilty Sept. 30 to the slaying of Katherine Rich. He has been officially charged with twelve other murders during the past eight years. His lawyer plans to plead in the Powell case that his client is not guilty by reason of insanity...
...walked out of the 1980 Democratic National Convention to avoid any sense of commitment to a Carter-Mondale ticket? Didn't you then bolt the party to join the John Anderson "National Unity" ticket in open opposition to the Carter-Mondale slate? To all of those charges I plead guilty and offer no apologies. In both the Kennedy and the Anderson campaigns I felt that I was supporting the best available candidate for the office of President. In retrospect, I am more convinced than ever that if the campaign of either of those two men had succeeded the country...