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...Terrible Toby. Behind the name-calling, two-term incumbent Republican Lowell Weicker, 51, and four-term Democratic Congressman Toby Moffett, 38, are locked in a dead-heat classic of American political theater. Weicker was ambushed recently at a campaign stop by Flip-Flop the Clown, a costumed Moffett staffer seeking to symbolize the incumbent's election-year renunciations of his 1981 votes for the President's budget and tax cuts. Weicker, whose slogan has been "Nobody's Man but Yours," has countered by pushing his image as an unbossed maverick, a legitimate characterization. The polls have offered...
Other members of the Harvard community are not so load of the cheerleaders. Car of Owens, a staffer at the Women's Clearinghouse, believes cheerleading is often degrading to women and sometimes the froof of sexual exploitations "I find it disturbing that the women wear those short little skirts while the men wear long pants. Obviously the could weather affects both sexes equally. The women are being exploited." She adds that cheerleading has traditionally been a way for men to deny women participation in more serious sports...
...paper. But for some Star and Tribune staff members, Bailey's protest reflected a growing concern that the company was stressing profitability and the value of its privately held stock above journalistic quality. "It came as a complete shock," said Brent Stahl, a news research analyst and staffer with the paper's respected Minnesota Poll, which is also being axed. The local Newspaper Guild polled its members and produced a vote of "no confidence" in the paper's publisher, Donald Dwight. But City Editor Bob Franklin, asked if he could continue to operate with the reduced staff...
Mondale's office has received only a few disapproving telephone calls over his appearance. However, it could come back to haunt him when his presidential campaign begins in earnest. But some political analysts think Mondale made a smart move. Says a staffer at the Democratic National Committee: "Mondale has been in the doldrums. But after a gutsy move like this, people in political circles may start talking about...
...spread and panic swept through the camps. The throngs of refugees who had gathered at Gaza Hospital took off on foot to find shelter farther north. Along with them went 45 patients from the hospital, who fled their beds and joined the exodus. For a time, said a European staffer who remained behind, "it was deadly, deadly silent." Some survivors, meanwhile, later recalled seeing Christian militiamen operating a roadblock near the southern entrance to the camps, while hundreds of Israeli soldiers stood...