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...singlehanded, perhaps. But she has had a role in most of the Administration's important shake-ups. Back in early 1980, she was deeply involved in the departure of Campaign Manager John Sears and two of his assistants; she first tried to mediate the potentially embarrassing dispute between Reagan and the men, then made sure the aides' dismissal did not come before the crucial New Hampshire primary. Later that year, when it was time to choose the White House chief of staff, she, Deaver and Spencer successfully backed James Baker, then a newcomer to the Reagan ranks, over Edwin Meese...
Wherever Ueberroth spotted security forces, he sought them out to shake hands. There were 29 different police forces involved in the Los Angeles Games, and some believe the security there will rank for years as a model. The key, to Ueberroth, was attitude more than equipment. "The law-enforcement people were so upbeat," he explains, "and that affected everyone." Ueberroth himself had a few scares. One night four men carrying sawed-off | shotguns leaped over the security fence around his house but were caught; their objective was never clear. On another occasion two of Ueberroth's dogs died from poisoned...
...story office building a block away. But it did not crack a single pane of the shatterproof glass in the embassy or injure any of the 309 people inside. Said an embassy employee: "They'd have had to hit us with an atom bomb to shake this place...
About all you can do when your team plays a solid, aggressive game of basketball and still loses by 26 points is shake your head...
Nicole Galland (Emma) and Brad Dalton (Jerry) also turn in fine performances as the deux et trois of the menage, though they are unable to shake an inability to project the midlife angst of English Big Chillers nearing the big four-oh. Eric Rosencrantz contributes a refreshing dose of Italo-campiness in his waiter cameo...