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...energetic display of political distortion, half-baked ideas and the big-lie technique," countered the other. The latest salvos in the presidential campaign? No, just samples of the recent invective between James Miller, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, and the man he replaced, Commissioner Michael Pertschuk. A staunch consumer advocate whose seven-year term at the FTC expired last week, Pertschuk left office fightin', feudin' and fumin'. He accused Miller, a Reagan appointee, of deliberately sidetracking the FTC's mission to protect consumers against unfair and deceptive business practices. "While they have fiddled," complained Pertschuk...
Recently on the planet GoBotron, the vile Cy-Kill eluded the dragnet of staunch and stalwart Leader1 by changing himself into a motorcycle. Where would he go next to foment trouble? "Planet Earth is ripe for the taking!" sneered the nefarious one to his henchmen. "The earthling young can surely be persuaded to nag their parents until our triumph is complete...
Some U.S. analysts speculate that the marshal may have got the boot because he was too staunch an advocate of arms-control negotiations with the U.S. Ogarkov served as the Soviet Union's chief military representative to the first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks at a time when the Soviet leadership was convinced of the need to check American advances in weaponry at the negotiating table. Ogarkov is thought to have pushed for the start of talks in Vienna this fall on limiting the arms race in space, but he may have run up against opposition from...
...that Ahmed Reda Guedira, a royal counselor to King Hassan II of Morocco, faced a decidedly frosty reception in Washington last week when he visited Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State George Shultz and other Administration officials. A month ago the conservative Hassan, long a staunch U.S. ally, had suddenly initiated a treaty of friendship with Libya's radical strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Washington's Public Enemy No. 1. Officially the State Department admitted to being "surprised" by the improbable marriage; privately it fumed...
...correspondent, "but there is no suggestion that the sheep was promoted to shepherd." Perturbed Scots have also raised practical questions: Would lonely widows want Nelson paying a call after dark? How could he comfort the family of a murder victim or preach on motherhood? But Nelson has many staunch defenders, who have pointed out that the young Moses committed murder and that St. Paul approved the killing of Christians before his conversion. "Surely Christ is still Redeemer," argued another letter writer. "Can we not believe that Mr. Nelson may be truly reborn...