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Rather than let Senator Henry Jackson exploit the issue to scuttle SALT or Senator Howard Baker to ingratiate himself with the Republican right, the Administration would give a senatorial ally, Idaho's Frank Church, a sneak preview of the information and thus offer him an opportunity to go public with it. That way, he might be a principal arbiter of an acceptable Soviet explanation for the brigade. But Church, facing tough conservative opposition to his reelection next year, panicked. The Senate would not ratify SALT, he proclaimed, until the Soviet brigade had been removed...
...Front Line African states, as well as South Africa, to agree to an independent Namibia. Talking to the press last week, McHenry lamented the high visibility of his new post. "It's difficult to accomplish foreign policy objectives in a fishbowl," he said. "I can't sneak around any more." But he plans to maintain something of a private life. Though divorced from his first wife, he spends as much time as he can with his two daughters, who live with him in Manhattan, and his Oxford-educated son, who is in Boston paradoxically training...
...Adams' strongest views concerns tobacco, and his home is papered with signs reading, "Thank you for not smoking. The American Cancer Society." Says Hughes: "Blistering rows occur if he smells smoke, so I would disappear into the garden, ostensibly to contemplate nature, but in fact to sneak a cigarette and bury the butt under a shrub." As a veteran connoisseur of art, architecture and antiquity, Hughes learned long ago to treat a monument with respect...
When the old wolves know they are about to die, they sneak back into the woods and find their territory, the land that is especially theirs. To find my bed, I coped with an elevator wall, and the carpeted interior of my dormitory which made loud noises when I walked upon it. The walls of my room swirled around and around, dilating and breathing, their bright colors and strange poster faces lulling my consciousness--the face of Jim Morrison peered in on me from an album cover, still and refracted, inviting me to his morbid dance with a grim smile...
Bill Lee--that old gonfalon of Red Sox past--once said that Zimmer had to pass his driver's test before he could manage a professional baseball team. But gerbils just don't drive--they sniff and sneak and scurry their way out of the maze. And if the O's are demolished in a plane crash, (or if Earl Weaver sniff too much glue), then Don Zimmer's beady eyes might finally sit still at the end of the season. Besides, Zimmer is the right man for the job. In the American League East, a rodent's instincts...