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...Begin so charmed his audience that bodyguards had to protect the frail candidate from his listeners' affection. Later, when Peres tried to mount the same podium, he was greeted with a shower of tomatoes and oranges thrown by jeering young men and was forced to retreat from the rostrum without uttering a word. Labor charged angrily that the Likud had orchestrated the demonstration...
...prepared for the question: "I cannot answer that question at this time." Watching, Haig sent a note to Speakes. It said, in effect: "Get off the air." The delivery of the note alarmed reporters present, particularly when Speakes understandably refused to dis close its contents and left the rostrum...
...green uniform gleaming with nine rows of ribbons on his chest and four silver stars on each epaulet, General Wojciech Jaruzelski strode to the rostrum of Warsaw's parliamentary chamber and formally took over as Poland's new Premier. In the clipped tones of a military commander, he addressed both a plea and a stern warning to the troubled nation. "I am appealing at this moment for three months of uninterrupted work, 90 days of calm," said the general. He went on to promise that his new government would be willing to sit down with Solidarity, the independent...
...nearly lunchtime one day last week when Vice President Walter Mondale led 43 Senators into the cavernous and half-empty House chamber, sat next to House Speaker Tip O'Neill on the rostrum and began one of the oddest-but necessary-rituals of American presidential politics. Exactly two months earlier, Ronald Wilson Reagan had been elected President; in exactly two weeks, he would be inaugurated. Yet, under the cumbersome election procedures set forth in the U.S. Constitution, he was not yet officially President-elect of the United States. One by one, Mondale opened 51 sealed envelopes, which contained certificates...
Standing on the rostrum of the House chamber, after certifying Reagan as the electoral-vote winner, Mondale announced the tally in the electoral balloting for Vice President. After Mondale proclaimed George Bush's tally, legislators on both sides of the aisle, as well as the spectators in the gallery, rose to give Mondale a standing ovation for his finale: "Walter F. Mondale, of the State of Minnesota, has received 49 votes.'' -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett with Reagan and James Willwerth/Ju...