Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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KATE BUSH: THE SENSUAL WORLD (Columbia). Well, it does have a lonely-hearts love song about a computer. Otherwise, the histrionics are so heavy and the passion so sham on this record that it would be wiser just to press DELETE...
...Amato complains that he is the victim of "tremendous distortions" by the press involving a few incidents among the hundreds of thousands of inquiries he has made on behalf of his constituents. "A Congressman and Senator is supposed to do exactly what I do," he insists. "Abuse is getting people preferential treatment when they're not entitled to it. Getting them something they're entitled to, fighting for it, that...
...domestic morass. If so, he may be disappointed. The key ingredients for change in the Communist world are already well identified, the recipe lifted from a Western cookbook for democracy. Separate Party from State. Add opposition parties and free elections to State. Briskly mix in press, speech and travel freedoms. Top with rights to assemble, strike and form labor unions. Bake in oven turned to Free Enterprise setting. Then hope that the inevitable spillover of chaos -- including the inevitable hard economic times -- doesn't cause the Democracy Souffle to fall...
...PRESS: The No. 2 paper in D.C. tries harder...
...White House denounced Ortega's decision to end the truce but brushed off talk about renewing military aid to the Contras. "We don't want to give him any excuse" to cancel elections scheduled for next February, said presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater...