Word: resister
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...come out, John, I'll let you serve," coaxed a coy Billie Jean King. "You can even pick your own linesman." This last promise was one her quarry couldn't resist, and out from backstage came a head-banded, curly-haired, racquet-wielding Snoopy masquerading as a mild-mannered John McEnroe. The arena was the Grand Ballroom at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria, as the Second Annual Women's Sports Foundation dinner served a sizable helping of awards and raised some $80,000 to encourage women's participation in sports. "I adore John," Billie...
...finishing an "orientation school," Yao enlisted to help the North Koreans fight the American-backed South Koreans. He did so under "no pressure" from the government, but rather out of a "great deal of nationalistic patriotism on my part." The rallying cry that stirred him and his compatriots was "Resist the United States and aid Korea; Protect your home and defend your country." "After half a century we finally had peace," he says of post-revolutionary China, and they felt threatened by U.S. connections with the hated Chiang...
...battle is far from over. Congress has weeks to go on its spending bills and cannot respond to the Administration's latest proposals until Reagan outlines his strategy. Whatever that strategy is, appropriation subcommittee chairmen say they will resist an effort to twist further the budget process to fit the President's political needs. For this they should be applauded; Reagan has too easily convinced the public that his fiscal gamesmanship should be seen only as a determined Mr. Conservative besting a flabby Mr. Liberal. In fact, the procedural tricks play a large role in the budget fight...
...Arab world. In addition, he was infuriated by the repeated calls by Khomeini to his fellow Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq, who form 55% of the country's population, to overthrow their President. Saddam was convinced that Iran, swept by revolution, would be unable to resist an Iraqi attack. But the war became one cause in which the multifarious factions of Iran could unite. Explains one Iranian officer: "The war is a black-and-white situation. You need not make any agonizing choices...
...Useless to resist. It is everywhere. On T shirts, umbrellas, potholders, even nightgowns, Puzzles, Piggy banks. At Harvard, where they had a General Hospital weekend. It is a campus craze, a teen-age fad, a licensing bonanza and the top-rated soap on the tube, leaving All My Children and One Life to Live in the dust. Some 12 million people watch it every afternoon (3 to 4 p.m. E.S.T.). Have laid in provisions, disconnected phone. Must watch General Hospital...