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...views help determine how power is distributed across the Administration. It was Deaver, reinforced by Nancy Rea gan, who installed Baker as Chief of Staff. Later it was Deaver again, this time with Mrs. Reagan's delayed support, who worked on Reagan to get rid of Secretary of State Alexander Haig. It was also Deaver who had pushed for William Clark as National Security Adviser and then, realizing he had made a mistake, turned on him, once more with Nancy Reagan's approval. Today Clark will not speak to Deaver and acknowledges his greeting only when Reagan...
...dirty Dallas that television keeps alive has long since gone. "It's such a straight town," says Dallas Times Herald Columnist Molly Ivins. "It is so earnest about making itself a great city. When people spot funkiness in Dallas, they race around with a wrecking ball and get rid of it immediately. "The Dallas of the '80s is a community that has adopted the construction crane as its municipal bird," the introduction to a fact book about Dallas crows, and it is a fact. A skyline that now looks like a comb on its back with some teeth...
...opponents are confident that they will succeed eventually. "The confrontations over the PAC issue are going to get worse, not better," predicts Fred Wertheimer, president of Common Cause. "We all have the same goal: to get rid of a rotten system that simply has to be changed...
Home remedies were big sellers, and nine years before the passage of the Federal Food and Drugs Act in 1906, Sears attributed all kinds of curative powers to its treatments. Among them were obesity powders "to get rid of superfluous fat," a hair restorer and remedies for rheumatism, asthma, heart disease and an "opium and morphine habit." The bulk of the 1897 edition is devoted to the essentials of late-19th century life, at prices that today are pure nostalgia. Shoppers could find a 200-lb. barrel of corned beef for $9, a 35-lb. wooden pail of gumdrops...
...those who say Kahane is dangerous, I say yes," he boasted to several hundred supporters at a Jerusalem rally. "They say Kahane wants to get rid of the Arabs. Correct. I want to get rid of all the Arabs." As his first act in the Knesset, he vowed, he would propose a bill to expel the 700,000 Arabs who are Israeli citizens, as well as the 1.3 million who live in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...