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...better watch myself." Hastotis said, glancing around him. But he shook his head and added, I don't know, I've been impressed...
...terrible timing," groaned one of Margaret Thatcher's advisers. Just as the beleaguered Prime Minister was considering when to launch a counterinvasion of the Falklands, her partners in the European Community last week gave Britain first a diplomatic slap and then subjected it to a humiliation that shook the ten-nation Community to its institutional roots. The crux of the problem, as French President François Mitterrand put it, was not just "what role Great Britain intends to play" in the Community, but "the question of the presence or the nature of the presence of Great Britain...
...Washington Hilton Hotel and questioned witnesses of the attack, including two of the victims, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy and District of Columbia Police Officer Thomas Delahanty. The prosecution also showed a startling ABC videotape of President Jimmy Carter campaigning in Dayton, Ohio, on Oct. 2,1980. While Carter shook hands in a crowd, Hinckley's face appeared, bobbing up and down, in and out of focus, only six feet away from the President. A week later Hinckley was arrested at the Nashville airport for carrying three handguns; Carter was then in town campaigning...
...owned trailer homes. In the town of Parachute, 15 miles from the Colony site, men piled into O'Leary's Pub and the Old Bank Saloon, where they drank, pounded on the tables and broke into fistfights. Others, gathered in small knots outside on the streets, simply shook their heads and sobbed. Said Ron Ramsey, 29: "Exxon dumped a bomb on us. Where do we go from here...
...arrival of a troubled neighbor. Standing on a red carpet at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport last week, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev kissed the uniformed visitor on each cheek as gaily dressed schoolchildren offered bouquets of roses and carnations. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's martial-law leader, then shook hands with the phalanx of Politburo members who had waited on the tarmac to greet...