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...tension between London and Moscow began on Sept. 12. Two days later Soviet Foreign Ministry Official Vladimir Suslov angrily denounced the initial British expulsion order as a "hostile and malicious" action designed to "poison Anglo-Soviet relations." Suslov handed British Ambassador Sir Bryan Cartledge a list of Britons slated to be expelled...
Unlike other TV shows that have utilized rock music, Miami Vice can spend more than $10,000 per episode buying the rights to original recordings, rather than using made-for-TV imitations. The selections have ranged from '50s hits like the Coasters' Poison Ivy to recent numbers from Todd Rundgren, U2 and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The rest of the show's bracing musical score is supplied by Jan Hammer, a Czech-born composer, using sounds stored in a digital computer synthesizer. Working in a state-of-the-art studio in his 150- year-old colonial home near Brewster...
...plow and a hybrid flower that closed in the presence of tears. "Florists will be mobbing me," said the old man. "Think of the dramatic effect at funerals!" Sister Rose is so organized that she alphabetizes her kitchen so that the allspice would be stored next to the ant poison...
Reagan's change of heart appears to be a major concession to two political realities: he faced defeat in Congress if he continued to resist sanctions, and the bitter fight that would ensue if he attempted to exercise his veto might poison the atmosphere for the entire legislative session. The senior Administration official insisted, however, that the new presidential sanctions do not represent any change in Reagan's views on South Africa. The President, this official said, has always harbored sympathy for the measures in the congressional bill, which a month ago was hammered out by a joint House-Senate...
...arise, if somebody were to give in to these illusions--and they can be nothing but illusions, because history shows that if one side has plans, the other side has counterplans; if one side wants to take some measures, the other side takes countermeasures; if there is a poison, there is an antidote--that is the lesson of history. So the question is: Where do we go from here...