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DIED. Allard K. Lowenstein, 51, Yale educated lawyer and liberal Democratic gadfly who led the anti-Viet Nam "Dump Johnson" movement that contributed to L.B.J.'s decision not to seek re-election in 1968; of four gunshot wounds, apparently inflicted by a former protege; in Manhattan. Lowenstein was active...
Often, I'd replace Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal's secretaries while they went to lunch. Rosenthal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the man with more power at the Times than anyone except for Publisher "Punch" Sulzberger, was usually out to lunch as well, but when he wasn't I...
But Soames bluffed masterfully, like his protege Lord Carrington, who maneuvered the conflicting parties into the cease-fire for the transfer of power last fall. Like Carrington, Soames worked without bias, constantly dangling the bloody alternative to order and compromise--the scuttling of the elections and the resumption of war...
The Central Committee also reconstituted the Communist Party Secretariat that had been dissolved during the Cultural Revolution. Many analysts believe that the Secretariat will soon become a key decision-making authority within the Politburo. Its new head, Hu Yaobang, is one of Deng's key allies. The Central Committee...
SUDDENLY, PACINO WHIRLS in a frenzied freak-out, pumping his body and punching his hands into the air, a wild, abandoned look frozen in his tumescent eyes. "I don't think I can handle it," he whines later to Sorvino. "Things happen to me.. I'm not afraid...I...