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...amendment's passage rarely draws much comment; papers carried only slight, if any, notice of the House veto. But the provision's familiarity should not obscure its fundamental unfairness. The amendment was unjust when initially introduced by Rep. Henry Hyde (D.-III) in 1976, and it remains so today...
...none of the teams ought to win-slumping superstars, shallow bullpens and error-prone infields-than to predict which one eventually will do so. "Pitching's going to win it," claims Expos Manager Bill Virdon, intoning a baseball verity. If so, perennial bridesmaid Montreal should have a slight advantage on the mound. Still, Ace Hurler Steve Rogers, the first pitcher in the N.L. to record 17 wins this season, has lost three of his last five games. Top Reliever Jeff Reardon has muffed eight critical saves, causing such consternation among Montreal fans that they even booed his wife Phebe...
Before delivering the formal letter of resignation to President Chaim Herzog, Begin promised to meet with representatives from his Likud coalition. Despite the assurances of a Begin aide that the Prime Minister was not being "Machiavellian," the slight delay seemed to signal that Begin would still be open to friendly persuasion. During the Monday-morning gathering in the Prime Minister's offices, one coalition leader after another pleaded with Begin to stay on, arguing that his departure might bring Labor Leader Shimon Peres to power and weaken the Israeli position in Lebanon and the West Bank. Begin sat through...
...part, the Administration can certainly point to some signs, however slight, of an increased pace in the dialogue with Moscow. Last week both countries signed a multiyear grain pact, and the U.S. ended its restrictions on the sale of pipelaying tractors to the Soviets. Most intriguing of all was an offer from Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov. He seemed to suggest, for the first time, that the Soviets might now be willing to destroy 81 of their 243 SS-20s in Europe so as to equal the number of British and French missiles targeted at the Soviet Union. He said...
...have intoned, "here is a new song by George Gershwin and his lovely wife Ira." Such is the curse of being "the other one," of being merely famous when your younger brother is a legend in American music. Even within his family, Ira was heir to the unintentional slight: his father Morris could remember George's melodies, but to him Ira's song title Fascinating Rhythm was Fashion on the River. Working in George's immense shadow bred a wry modesty in Ira. For a 1959 collection of his lyrics, he wrote that "any resemblance to actual...