Word: remarkes
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...from the intermittent tension caused by Iranian bombing forays, the mood in Baghdad is little different from that of prewar days. "We are not afraid of the Iranians or anything they might do to us," said the owner of a small shop in the Baghdad souk, or marketplace. His remark reflects not so much bravado as the fact that there have been few Iranian bombing raids in which civilians have been hit. Even in the famed Shi'ite Muslim Al Kadhimain mosque, where posters of Ayatullah Khomeini once hung during religious festivals, there is little evidence of special security...
...which would set aside 2.2 million acres in the state, by insisting: "Idaho is not for sale." Some of his supporters are slinging a little mud of their own. They are distributing bumper stickers in heavily Mormon eastern Idaho that read WINE, WOMEN AND SYMMS-a reference to a remark the Congressman is reported to have made after a 1977 trip to Libya: "There was no chance to drink or chase women...
Addressing Bertaccini's remark that "maybe Sulzberger (Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher of the Times) knows" what is causing the delivery problems, Epps said he had not asked Sulzberger about the matter...
...real meaning of the meeting lay in the apparent decision of the P.L.O. leader to make so conciliatory a gesture at this time. Even to some Israelis, the incident tended to lend credence to a telling public remark made by Morocco's King Hassan II last week. The P.L.O., said Hassan, was ready at long last to accept the existence of Israel "within secure and recognized boundaries," if Israel would agree to similar recognition of a Palestinian state. Said Uri Avnery, a prominent leftist member of the Knesset: "This has been in the works for years...
...uproariously funny when he wants to be. It's almost as though he can turn his comic talents on and off the way he does his omnipresent tape recorder--which he uses to capture everything he says so that later he can incorporate a humorous off-the-cuff remark into a future column...