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Last week, at her first press conference back in the Governor's man sion, she bravely, if nervously, faced a battalion of reporters. "I'm not the speechmaker of the family," she said, "I'm the homemaker and mother." But she answered questions, some of them rude, with ingenuous spirit. To explicit queries about her weight (140 Ibs. at 5 ft. 4 in.) and dieting, she allowed: "I try to eat just sliced chicken at lunch, but I get sick of it: sometimes I think I'm going to start cackling myself." She tries to avoid...
Later there was a second riot, and 2,000 women staged an anti-Robles march. This week the Supreme Court is scheduled to meet and make a deci sion about the legality of the National Assembly's ouster proceedings. After that, the national guard, the final arbiter in Panamanian politics, will either stick by Robles, back Delvalle - or step in and assume power itself...
Meanwhile, the Navy brass is more than ever dissatisfied with its own ver sion, the F-111B. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee recently, Admirals Thomas Moorer, chief of naval operations, and Thomas Connolly, his deputy for air, maintained that the plane is still too. heavy and thus ineffective for carrier duty. Connolly blurted: "There isn't enough power in all Christendom to make that airplane what we want!" That jolted Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius, who presently seems to prefer the F-111B over any "paper airplane" his admirals might want to add to the naval aviary. Ignatius...
...firefights, with her Uzi submachine gun cuddled in one hand, she was frequently taking a moment to apply a dab of "moisturizing cream" to her sunburned face or trying to comb out her tangled braids. And with good cause. Accompanying her through most of the campaign was Colonel Dov Sion, 46, an aide to Sharon. A month after war's end, the colonel and the correspondent were married...
...they were spawned. A song like the traditional Weila Waile, which the Clancys turn into a laff riot, comes off in The Dubliners' brawny hands as the grisly epic of infanticide that it actually is. The often sentimentalized Rising of the Moon becomes in the Dubliners' ver sion a powerful, harrowing hymn of revolutionary heroism...