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...then reversed, a highhanded decision to withhold the election results and even nullify them. Finally, after conflicting victory claims by the rival parties, the first official results showed that the apparent winner was the broadly based United People's Congress (U.P.C.), headed by Milton Obote, 56, the shrewd, sometimes ruthless former President who was deposed by Amin...
...gluttonous, shrewd and tough, Believing that evil is an outside job, not part of mankind's nature, he has no compunctions about literally beating the Devil out of people. He bashes a madman with a crucifix, throws "holy" ammonia water in the eyes of an attacker, and makes Hitler abhorrent to a Nazi official through a crude but effective method of behavior modification known as the third degree...
...Bernstein success story. All the President's Men heightened respect for investigative journalism, but at the price of romanticizing it, turning every young reporter into a toppler of presidents in his dreams. Sokolov helps bring a more substantial image to the public notion of the heroic journalist: the seasoned, shrewd man-about-town who has seen it all and written...
...voice, the musicality of her every acting gesture and her warm, spontaneous personality, which soared-but never stomped-across the footlights. There was no phony mystique, no overlay of artistic "temperament" in a world notorious for imperious egos. Sills onstage was indistinguishable from Sills in life: a keenly intelligent, shrewd, ebullient woman (her nickname is Bubbles) who has taken a stable, no-nonsense approach to one of the century's major singing careers...
DIED. Bruce A. Gimbel, 67, merchant-sportsman who for 22 years headed the department-store chain that grew out of a single emporium in Indiana established by his grandfather Adam in 1842; of cardiac arrest; in Greenwich, Conn. An avid private pilot as well as a shrewd businessman, Gimbel led the chain's expansion into the growing suburbs in the '50s. In 1973 he negotiated sale of the firm, then 10% owned by the Gimbel family and now comprising 69 Gimbels and Saks Fifth Avenue stores, to a subsidiary of the British-American Tobacco Co. for $195 million...