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Trying to keep Reagan above the fray, his aides made no changes in his public schedule. Thursday morning the President traveled to Chicago to continue his uphill battle for tax reform. On the way to Andrews Air Force Base, he told a staffer that the U.S. had been prepared to launch a military raid on the Achille Lauro to rescue the hostages. The President seemed personally chagrined that the hijackers had been whisked off the ship, foreclosing the rescue mission...
Newsweek reveals Nixon's significant role in the Reagan reelection campaign. Germond and Witcover unveil their requisite scoop, that Mondale's campaign staff engaged in some utterly irrelevant shenanaigans that bore a passing resemblance to l'affaire Watergate. To simplify, a Mondale staffer stole and then returned a book tabulating the flow of Pennsylvania labor money through the campaign apparatus to the ostensibly unaffiliated Mondale delegate committees. Though Germond and Witcover lack the requisite irony to appreciate it, the episode says much more about the idiocy of campaign finance law than it does about the ethics of the Mondale campaign...
...common complaint on Saturday night hit at the very premise of the event--meeting people. One Crimson Key staffer agreed that many people arrived in cliques and did little circulating...
...fueled by growing drug abuse in some locations, high unemployment in many countries and the tempting presence everywhere of foreign innocents, many on their first trips abroad. "You have to learn what's going on in a city and how to behave there," says Keith Harding, an American embassy staffer in Paris, "but tourists...
...Iranian Revolutionary Guards, inspired by the Khomeini revolution, sent young Lebanese fanatics out on bottle-smashing sprees in the bars of Beirut, taught them how to rig cars with powerful bombs and prepared them to die for their cause. "Like Khomeini," says Gary Sick, a former National Security Council staffer and an expert on Islamic fundamentalism, "these Shi'ite fundamentalists are rejecting the entire Western system...