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...bomb ripped through Harrods department store in London, killing at least five and injuring 91. Police suspected the Irish Republican Army. Even before last week's attacks, 1983 was "the bloodiest year for terrorism on record," according to Brian Jenkins, director of research on terrorism for the Rand Corp...
...KISSINGER EFFORT to cement Israeli-South African military ties has worked as planned. While Israeli leaders deny that their forces are advising or patrolling with South African forces, there is much evidence to the contrary. The Rand Daily Mail of South Africa in 1981 reported that Israelis were training South African-supported UNITA guerillas, a terrorist group which has attacked a number of civilian targets in Angola...
...Street analysts and industry experts disagree on how successful AT&T will be. In general, the new AT&T is expected to excel at its traditional business of long-distance telephone service. But it may run into trouble when it tries to take on other markets. Says ITT Chairman Rand Araskog...
...Lehrer, and the film makes Lyndon Johnson (Donald Moffat) look like Laurel or Hardy, take your pick. There he is in the back of his limousine, slamming his first together and muttering "darned housewife" when Annie Glenn refuses to see him: later he leeringly introduces fan-dancer Sally Rand; and during a film presentation with Eisenhower, Johnson sees the face of a Russian scientist and drawls. "Get that moron off of there," with the most extended moron this side of Gomer Pyle. Moffat's characterization, or rather caricature, elicits a laugh or two, but The Right Stuff's otherwise steady...
...judge, found her guilty. Miss Rand thereupon stood on her head in payment...