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He has been known to belt out a few bars after belting down a few beers at a pub of an evening, but one morning last week Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, 71, welcomed reporters to his daily press conference with a sober but boisterous-he knows...
3) Since the beginning of NATO, the Secretary-General, who is responsible for running the alliance's political machinery, has been European. In the new structure, with its greater emphasis on political coordination, it would make more sense for this official to be American?whenever the new Secretary-General, Lord...
The only other couple with similar ambitions were the Americans. Blumberg, 26, and Seibert, 24, chose to skate to Rimsky-Korsakov's lush symphonic suite Schéhérazade. Under the tutelage of Bobby Thompson, a British coach close to Torvill and Dean, the pair had revamped their...
In the Soviet Union, leadership transitions are, by definition, leadership crises. The most oppressively managed of societies and political systems has never been able to manage successions in a way that avoids conveying a sense of crisis both to the Soviet people and to the world. Top leaders never retire...
Like most of his countrymen, Kohl was relieved to have the matter settled, though his prestige had suffered some what from his Defense Minister's ineptitude. As for Kiessling, he declared, "My honor has been restored for all to see." He added, however, that he did not have the...