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...conduct a study so comprehensive that its conclusions will not be ready until February. The Administration long before then will have to offer a more convincing explanation of its purposes in Central America if it is to retain enough public support to carry out its policies. Said the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer, in an editorial headlined LATIN POLICY BLUSTER: "If President Reagan encouraged any hopes that the bipartisan commission he appointed might broaden his view of Central America, he is doing everything possible to douse them...
...position, which it held for 25 years but lost in the first quarter to Philip Morris (total 1982 sales: $9.1 billion). The big two, which together have about 65% of the market, are the Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola of cigarettedom, far ahead of third-place Brown & Williamson (Kool, Raleigh, Viceroy), which has 10.9%. Following those three are Lorillard (Kent, Newport, True), American Brands (Carlton, Pall Mall, Lucky Strike) and the Liggett Group (L & M, Eve, Chesterfield...
Britain's Margaret Thatcher could summon up the image of 1769, when the Virginia assembly, protesting the British Revenue Act, was dissolved by Governor Botetourt. In defiance, the assemblymen moved up Williamsburg's Duke of Gloucester Street to the Raleigh Tavern, where next day they reconvened in the Apollo Room and drew up a boycott of British goods. It was a warning that the British ignored, to their regret...
This year Windsor has gone after the Raleigh News & Observer for what he considers to be the paper's efforts to damage Lieutenant Governor James Green politically. When the capital paper pointed out that the state was paying for a private bathroom in the Lieutenant Governor's office, the country paper took a picture of the bathroom and published it. "I was ready to see a 30-ft.-sq. bath with sunken marble tub and gold fixtures, similar to the Roman baths," Windsor wrote. "What I found was a tiny room about 5 ft. by 7 ft. with...
February 16, 2 p.m.-A male undergraduate locked his 10 speed Raleigh Grand Prix outside the Science Center. When he returned the next day the bike, worth $300, was missing...