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When a 1975 Senate report on the CIA's assassination attempts on Cuban Premier Fidel Castro cited an unnamed woman as a "close friend" of John F. Kennedy as well as of Mafia Chieftains Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli, Judith Campbell Exner held a press conference in which she denied knowledge of any link between the slain President and the two mobsters...
Shultz, who arrived in Moscow on Sunday, met until 1:30 a.m. yesterday with Shevardnadze, then held talks with Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov before meeting Gorbachev...
...this has been a season of firsts," said Delaney Smith, alluding to her team's premier victories in Hanover against Dartmouth, in New Haven against Yale, and here against UMass last week...
Chirac's status as a center-right Premier under a leftist head of state, an arrangement known in France as cohabitation, was a controversial first-time experiment. Barre had opposed it as a "trap," and never fails to include the period of Chirac's premiership when he lists France's alleged economic ills. On balance, however, Chirac probably comes out ahead on the issue. Cohabitation has proved popular with most voters. Moreover, Chirac's position allows him to accompany Mitterrand to such highly public occasions as last month's Anglo-French summit meeting in London...
...Paris daily Liberation released last week, for example, indicated that Mitterrand was the first choice of 48% of the electorate, vs. 22% for Barre and 20.5% for Chirac. More important, Barre consistently scores higher than Chirac against Mitterrand alone (though he still comes in second), supporting the former Premier's oft-voiced claim that he offers the center-right its best chance of winning the climactic second round. Still, if Mitterrand enters the race, the La Fontaine fable will have to be rewritten. How would a tortoise and a hare fare against...