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...received a report that our small plane had flown into Iran at a very low altitude, landed in the desert, examined the possible rescue staging site and returned without detection. The pilot reported that it was an ideal place-a smooth and firm surface, adequately isolated, with only a seldom-used country road
...last week Ohio Democrat Metzenbaum drew attention to the practice by mounting a filibuster against the Christmas ornaments. In the process he has incurred the wrath of his colleagues. Says Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, in words seldom uttered in the august corridors: "I think he's a pain...
Through a seldom used constitutional provision called a "constructive" vote of no confidence, Kohl, 52, had become West Germany's sixth and youngest postwar Chancellor, ending 13 years of continuous rule by Social Democratic governments. Hours after the decision, an ebullient Kohl, garbed in cutaway coat, striped trousers and top hat, accepted the formal document of his appointment from Karl Carstens, President of the Federal Republic. Kohl declared his unprecedented parliamentary victory "a great day for democracy" and proclaimed the task ahead to be "a spiritual and moral challenge...
...landscapes.) Yet anyone who visits the retrospective of his paintings from 1966 to 1980 at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art this month (and at Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts starting in late November) can see that this is not "simple" realism; realism seldom...
...usual in the high circles of academia, there is seldom agreement within the local ice cream intelligentsia. That was until a couple of weeks ago, when there was a glammer of hope for solidarity within the Square's ice cream community. The imminent opening of a new branch of the famed Steve's Ice Cream on Church St. seemed to assure that the ice cream-loving factions could reach a compromise. Any soul who had trekked to the original store in nearby Somerville could attest: Steve's was quite simply the best. At last, many lovers of the creamy treat...