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Early in the week, the State Department released a white paper, backed up by an 18-in.-high stack of documents reportedly captured from Salvadoran guerrillas. The white paper was designed to back up Administration charges that the guerrillas had been promised 800 tons of rifles, submachine guns and other arms from the Soviet Union, Cuba, Viet Nam and Hungary and had actually received 200 tons. The paper asserted that most of the weaponry had been smuggled from Cuba through Nicaragua. The evidence in it had already been presented to European and Latin American officials in private briefings. Hardly anyone...
There comes a time in the business of playing poker and being President when you have to push in your whole stack, as L.B.J. used to say. Reagan has. Now the only way he is going to succeed is with success itself. Barber Conable of New York, the ranking Republican of Ways and Means, observes that soon there must be a perception of progress, of change no matter how small, if the "new beginning" is going to take root and grow. That feeling can come a hundred ways-from action on the Hill, from Reagan's speeches, from lucky...
...began, Garwood, now 34, was found guilty last week by a jury of five Viet Nam veterans at Camp Lejeune, N.C. He was convicted of collaboration and of assaulting an American prisoner. Gustav Mehrer, one of the nine former P.O.W.s called by the prosecution, testified that Garwood kept a stack of propaganda leaflets, wore an enemy uniform and held a rifle. Said Mehrer: "His actions were Vietnamese. He would hum and giggle like them. He would squat. He was a white Vietnamese...
...more hours poring over what Astronaut Crew Trainer Thomas Kaiser calls the "cookbook"-a 21-volume compendium of launch, orbit and descent procedures for piloting Columbia that will be on board during the flight. The manual is changed constantly; in the office shared by Young and Crippen is a stack of mimeographed revisions 2½ ft. high. The two men have also spent more than 1,200 hours working in elaborate mock-ups of the Columbia's flight decks, familiarizing themselves with the maze of switches and the five computers that run the ship...
...greatest filial embarrassment to hit the White House since Sam Houston Johnson moved into the White House so Lyndon could keep an eye on him. Billy, who declared his dislike for Blacks; Billy, who loaned his name to a (bad) brand of beer; Billy, who picked up a stack of money from Col. Khadafy and the Libyan gang. Billy, a loud, obnoxious, good ol' boy who pissed on airport runways while his brother the President piously declared: "I have never had an occasion to be embarrassed by Billy. I'm proud he's my brother." And then there...