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Scaphio and Phantis slander the king in the Palace Paper--a gossip newspaper that makes scandalous assertions about him. The mysterious author of these starting revelations--about how the king bathes in rum punch and gets showered down by a garden hose--is the king himself, who desperately tries, under Scaphio and Phantis' coercion, to make a statement about his sense of humor...
...Bush and his surrogates yesterday, but they fit the staff pretty well, too. The staff's piece says a lot more about the people who wrote it than it does about Buchanan: What they can't win on the field of principle and belief, they prefer to steal through slander. Pathetically (and altogether predictably), the staff attempts to equate Buchanan with Duke. But ridiculous charges aside, Buchanan is a candidate worthy of being judged by his ideas. So let's take a look...
...sure that Elehwany, the writer of My Girl, didn't mean to slander the world's bees. Like most of the world's humans, he was just raised in ignorance and bigotry, unable to distinguish between his friends the bees and his foes the yellowjackets...
...during the tense days surrounding the Aug. 19 coup attempt. On Aug. 20 Interfax, an independent Soviet news service, reported that Gamsakhurdia had agreed to comply with Emergency Committee orders to disarm the Georgian National Guard. Gamsakhurdia dismisses the charge as the work of "common liars who want to slander me." But the fact remains that soon after the coup was set in motion, he ordered the National Guard into the countryside, supposedly on a training exercise. A large portion of the 15,000-strong guard ignored the order and holed up on a mountainside. Gamsakhurdia now maintains that...
...crimes in eastern Germany occurred just as the 1.6 million Turks in western Germany were becoming accepted. There is no longer widespread anti-Turkish prejudice, says Barbara John, the Berlin commissioner for foreigners. "The contrary is true," she says. "West Germans have taken to defending the Turks against antiforeign slander coming from the east...