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...what does Frank think of the film 35 years on? And is it true that Mick loves it, but felt obligated to prevent its release to ensure the band could continue to tour? Does its director consider it as an honest document that in all its messy debauchery, anger, humor and impunity represents the true spirit of rock n' roll of the era? Who knows. Rock n' roll may never die, and certainly not before it gets old, but the 82-year-old Frank - who was present at the Pompidou Center to open his retrospective the previous night...
...nicotine patch"? I hope scientists have better things to do, but would a Hetero Patch be so awful? It would allow bigoted women to get what they want--straight kids--and ensure that gay kids grow up with moms who, at the very least, didn't try to prevent their existence. Gay people seem to fear we would die out if such a device existed. But the elaborate combination of genes, hormones and psychology that produces same-sex attraction has persisted, against all odds, through the millenniums. Gays have survived Darwinian selection, Nazis, the dulling effects of Will & Grace...
Attempts to squelch publication of Spycatcher abroad, however, have not fared so well. In September 1985, the London government filed suit in an Australian court to prevent release of the memoir. So far, the testimony of government witnesses in the case has been embarrassingly inconsistent. British Cabinet Secretary Sir Robert Armstrong has admitted that he was "economical with the truth" on the stand. The defense also noted that British officials allowed Journalist Chapman Pincher to publish a book in 1981 that contained similar material...
Despite this, Chiang's government did not try to prevent the Democratic Progressives and other Tangwai (literally "outside the party") candidates from campaigning in the election. K.M.T. and D.P.P. politicians alike favored free enterprise and Western ties, and both railed against pollution and corruption. The final days on the hustings, however, were overshadowed by the attempts of Hsu Hsin-liang, 48, a Taiwanese dissident in exile in the U.S., to return to Taiwan...
...deny this was done. Any CIA effort to enlist the Saudis in support of the contras would have violated the Boland Amendment, originally passed by Congress in 1982 to stop the use of any U.S. funds to overthrow the government of Nicaragua, and tightened in 1984 to prevent the Administration from using any other country to provide military help to the contras. Many close observers of Saudi affairs doubt the royal family would take the risk of a potential public exposure of dealing with either Iran or the contras...