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Barnes, 51, won his notoriety when, as the most flamboyant member of a Mafia-style council of seven "blood brothers," he earned millions distributing heroin throughout Harlem. In 1977 he was finally nailed, and the sentence was stiff: life imprisonment without possibility of parole. Six years later, Mr. Untouchable turned into Mr. Tell...
...short-range SS-21, SS-22 and SS-23 missiles-had already been installed in East Germany and Czechoslovakia to counter the NATO threat. A Soviet officer quoted in the newspaper explained that "we must be prepared to give a due rebuff to the aggressor." But if Moscow was stiff as ever about intermediate-range missiles, Gro myko did suggest that the Soviets would return, probably in mid-March, to the Vienna negotiations on the reduction of conventional forces in Europe, which the Soviets "suspended" just before Christmas...
...White House requests $175 million in military aid, well above the $64.8 million Congress approved last year, there will be stiff opposition when the Senate and House of Representatives reconvene on Jan. 23. Congressional critics of U.S. policy in El Salvador were angered when the President used a pocket veto during the holiday recess to block a bill extending the requirement that the U.S. certify El Salvador's progress in human rights and political reform before granting further aid. Last week 33 House Democrats filed suit in federal court charging that the President had acted unconstitutionally. The certification...
That anxiety has sent accused drunken drivers flocking to their local law offices. "There's a tremendous boom going on in the field," says Nichols, who publishes the Drinking/Driving Law Letter. "You're seeing it nationally, even in states without stiff penalties. The fear level is up all over." Attorney Reese Joye of Charleston, S.C., notes that a decade ago there were only about 30 lawyers in the entire country who had regular trial experience in drunken-driving cases. Today, he estimates, there are at least 100 in every state...
...such playwright. At the moment he is represented in the West End by a romantic comedy called House of Cards, about an architect who suspects his wife of adultery. Stoppard opens The Real Thing with a scene from House of Cards, a brilliantly brittle Coward parody full of stiff-upper-libido dialogue like "I abhor cliché. It's one of the things that has kept me faithful." As it happens, the two leading players in House of Cards are Henry's wife Charlotte (Christine Baranski) and his friend Max (Kenneth Welsh). And Henry has just begun...