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...moved quickly to prevent major demonstrations from taking place in the capital and cordoned the Old Town, a traditional rallying point for Solidarity supporters. As churchgoers streamed out of St. John's Cathedral after a morning Mass in honor of workers, someone in the crowd flung a sheaf of leaflets into the air that urged Poles "to ruin the attempt to make this holiday a show of obedience." Only about 200 youths stood ready to battle the police, who chased them down cobblestoned streets with jets of water. When the protesters tried to regroup outside the church of Father...
Metzenbaum released a sheaf of memos that indicated Meese had been given information from internal documents of President Carter's campaign. One was an outline of Carter's strategy for farm and rural voters. Attached was a cover note from Reagan Campaign Aide Max Hugel, telling Meese that Campaign Chairman William Casey, now CIA director, wanted his thoughts on how to "counteract this effort." Another memo, written by Republican Consultant Thelma Duggin, concerned Carter's plans to win the black vote. At the top, Campaign Aide William Timmons had scribbled, "Ed Meese-Ideas how to counter...
...brandish a 5-Ib. packet of testimony, which he said debunks the network's January 1982 documentary The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception. CBS hit back at a news conference 20 minutes later, 100 yards away in the same Washington hotel, with its own 1¼lb. sheaf of affidavits. Neither side uncovered a "smoking gun," but each embarrassed the other, CBS by releasing accusations from Westmoreland's aides, the general by exposing a damning memo from the show's producer, George Crile...
Come July, 10,000 athletes and 2,000 coaches from 150 nations are expected in Los Angeles, along with 8,200 accredited members of the media, the largest force that has ever covered anything. If anyone needs a sheaf of copy paper, two freight-carfuls are ordered. Ueberroth's staff, which began as one, then became three, will have swelled to perhaps 45,000. A Los Angeles research firm estimates the Games will mean almost $4 billion to the state and local economy. The L.A.O.O.C. will have generated another billion in commerce and, while accepting no charity, will have promoted...
...Chief Justice Warren read slowly from his sheaf of papers, both the Southern and Negro lawyers mentally underscored the key points that they would have to live with for years to come...