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...terrorists and be used for shooting down airliners. But at that point the President began to lobby hard to turn the vote around. During a White House breakfast for 60 Senators last week, he declared that the sale was a matter of U.S. self-interest, adding "We must retain the trust of the moderate Arab nations...
...past month, the Argentines have chased or captured fishing boats from Spain, Japan, Poland and Taiwan. The Taiwanese vessel may have been trying to escape the warship by heading toward the 150-mile-deep British exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands. Taiwan was furious. Britain, which fought Argentina to retain the Falklands in 1982, denounced the latest action as "excessive and unjustified...
Lenzner says his career proved to him theefficacy of working within the system to effectchange. Although half of the president's cabinetat one point said that programs they headed hadbeen sued by Lenzner's legal aid service on behalfof poor clients, the service was made independentand continues today. "I retain a strong confidencein the system," says Lenzner. But attendingcollege in a period of pro-administrationquiescence "might not have been helpful" for hiscareer, he adds...
...voice, "I want to introduce Gannett's new boss." President John Curley, 47, would be taking over that day as chief executive officer, Neuharth explained. The announcement caught some seasoned Gannett watchers off guard. Still, it will probably not signal a complete change in corporate leadership. Neuharth, 62, will retain his title of chairman, and promised to be "very active" in that role, supervising long- term corporate strategy and acquisitions. Said Neuharth: "I love this company. I'm not going away...
Cuomo's mind is swift and shrewd, almost awesome in its ability to grasp and retain material. He takes a lot from his voracious reading. "This morning," he wrote recently in his diary, "I read an hour or so of The Razor's Edge (Somerset Maugham's novel about a restless man searching for inner understanding). It always had good meanings for me." Another morning he rereads portions of Thomas Jefferson's autobiography. "One thing struck me," wrote Cuomo, "the logical forcefulness of his debate...