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...ruckus over rock's excesses flares on historical cue: Elvis' pelvis in the '50s; Beatles and drugs, sex and Stones in the '60s; punk anarchy in the '70s. Those controversies were just as intense and at times even more widespread. Presley shook up the whole country; the Sex Pistols played yet another funeral march for the British Empire. Things simmered down with time, which is probably what is most needed now. Even liberals like New York Governor Mario Cuomo have voiced concern about explicit lyrics. Danny Goldberg, president of Gold Mountain Records, has organized his own group to counter...
...after 1:00 a.m. when the telephone shook Ike's father from a sound sleep that September morning. The anonymous voice of a Texas state trooper came over the line through 2000 miles of static...
Once again, surprise was in the air in Moscow. For the second time in two months, the increasingly confident new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, last week shook the Kremlin with a dramatic burst of changes at the top. Grigory Romanov, the man who some Western analysts believe had been Gorbachev's rival for the Communist Party leadership before the General Secretary's March 11 accession, was unceremoniously dropped from the ruling Politburo. One of the oldest and most familiar Kremlin figures of all, Andrei Gromyko, who has been his country's Foreign Minister for the past 28 years, was raised...
...they passed through what was a simple reception line, the passengers shook hands with the President, a few patted him on the back, others embraced the First Lady. Some shyly or proudly introduced their wives and children. But all seemed eager to move on, eager to hug those waiting for them a few yards away, eager to get home and out from under the glare of being the unwilling heroes of a televised international crisis. After embracing Nancy, an ebullient Victor Amburgy of San Francisco rushed over, picked up his small niece and bear-hugged the beaming girl. He seemed...
...great, it's great, we are going home," one of the Americans called out to journalists. The TWA pilot, Captain John Testrake, shook hands with some Lebanese bystanders and then climbed into the lead Red Cross car. The convoy was headed by a Lebanese Army truck with an antiaircraft gun, and there were others mounted with heavy machine guns. Shortly before beginning their 3 1/2-hour drive to Damascus, the Americans were given flowers, farewell tokens from their captors. Reporters were kept away by militiamen, who fired shots into the air and rolled unprimed grenades toward the startled newsmen...