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...President had been awakened by his National Security Adviser, Robert McFarlane, and told of the bombing. At 8:30 a.m., McFarlane and Secretary of State George Shultz briefed Reagan at the White House. By then Shultz had asked Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Richard Murphy to proceed to Beirut to lead an investigation of the bombing...
...lingering doubts about his running mate's financial affairs. The House Ethics Committee announced that it would investigate whether Geraldine Ferraro, as a Congresswoman, had improperly claimed an exemption from disclosing the finances of her husband John Zaccaro. The committee had no choice politically except to proceed with a probe, once the conservative Washington Legal Foundation had formally challenged Ferraro's right to the exemption. Its investigation, which probably will not be completed before Congress adjourns Oct. 4, does not necessarily mean Ferraro did anything wrong. But it is at least a jarring reminder of the furor that...
Pinochet, who last month announced that he will not proceed with plans to call elections for Congress, seemed unmoved by the signs of growing discontent. The government imposed censorship on two radio stations and sued three magazines for supporting the protests. It has also threatened to hold the organizers legally responsible for the deaths...
Relieved of the obligation of looking at these photographs, the reader can smartly proceed to skip Eruntics, the monumental work of one Reginald Gulliver. He, as a few people will some day know and then immediately forget, is the one who teaches bacteria to communicate in English. An introduction to his accomplishment more than suffices: "The description of experiments which occupies later chapters of Eruntics is unbelievably boring by virtue of its pedantry, prolixity, and continued interlarding of the text with photograms, tables, and graphs which make it difficult to digest." A five-volume History of Bitic Literature is conveniently...
Opposition turned violent near Johannesburg, where more than 100 people were injured as police used tear gas and sjamboks (whips made of hide) against Indian demonstrators. Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha is nonetheless determined to proceed with the three-part Parliament, which will begin deliberations in Cape Town later this month...