Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour practice session, Roman Popadiuk, a Foreign Service officer on loan to the press office, began boring in on Iranscam. The object was to make certain that Reagan would stay consistent, no matter how sharp the cross-examination. Popadiuk got so caught up in his role as a Sam Donaldson stand-in that Press Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater began to worry. "I thought we might all get kicked out," he said. "It was pretty tough stuff." Reagan hung in, however, a bit unsteady at times but improving...
...gains of the Mayflower Madam are hers to keep. At issue was some $250,000 in book and TV-movie money paid to Sydney Biddle Barrows for her story as owner of a high-priced Manhattan escort service. Under a New York law passed to keep the "Son of Sam" killer from cashing in on his deeds, criminals cannot profit from their biographies. Barrows, who pleaded guilty in 1985 to promoting prostitution, argued that the law should not apply to victimless crimes like her own. Last week a New York court agreed. "Yea!" said Barrows. "I need the money...
Congressional leaders of both parties, like the sagacious Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, have been invited into the White House for their counsel. Their inputis now being felt on issues like the ABM treaty, SDI, trade, welfare. Changes in Reagan's approach to policy are almost inevitable, unless he wants to court more defeat, which could darken his exit a couple of years hence...
...Jersey town asks how it could happen, experts fear that others will seek similar fatal attention. -- Senator Sam Nunn fights for strict adherence to a key arms treaty. -- Freedom for John Gotti, the Mafia' s Dapper Don. -- Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole has become a hot presidential candidate. -- Marian Wright Edelman is a Washington lobbyist -- for children...
...Senator, Sam Nunn is unusually laconic. Last week, to make matters worse, he was suffering from laryngitis. But the Georgia Democrat, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, had a lot to say, so he stocked up on throat lozenges. In a series of speeches in the Senate, he addressed one of the most important arms-control questions today: Does the 1972 Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty permit the U.S. to develop and test a space-based Star Wars system...