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George Bush called on his opponents to abide by the GOP's eleventh commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican." When polls showed the VP behind Dole, however, he abandoned the commandment and came out swinging. Bob Dole was, George Bush insisted, a "sunshine patriot." Dole spent two years in a military hospital recuperating from wounds received in World...
...Gaza Strip, where Wazir spent part of his childhood, Arabs waved black flags and shouted "'Abu Jihad sacrificed his blood...
Peter Vellucci, son of Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, is in his third term in the State House. To defeat token Republican opposition two years ago, the Cambridge representative spent $4000. But this time Vellucci says he will be in serious trouble unless he receives contributions totaling...
...name of national security, the Reagan Administration has spent the last seven years attempting to limit the free exchange of scientific research. The Administration has expanded controls on the publication of scientific research, attempted to impose prepublication reviews of research results, broadened the classification of information and limited the exchange of knowledge with overseas scholars...
...stakes in the pie fight are high. Even as growth in fast-food sales (1987 U.S. total: $56 billion) is slowing, pizza purchases are booming. Americans will spend an estimated $15 billion on pizza this year, more than twice what they spent just five years ago. As pizza has become more popular, the chains have seemingly sprinkled their outlets on every street corner: Pizza Hut, the largest, has more than 5,400 outlets in the U.S. and 6,200 worldwide. Even McDonald's has test-marketed a pie, McPizza. With so much competition, "it's not enough anymore just...