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...final ironic twist, one of the President's most effective allies in the whole affair has been Jimmy Carter, and now it is the Noriega regime that evokes Teddy Roosevelt's memory to stir up fears that the Yanquis are coming. The Panamanian curse has yet to be lifted, both from the U.S. and from Panama itself...
...already the city of 10 million had begun to stir. Supporters of the students banged pots and pans to wake neighbors and send them into the streets with a mission: stop the trucks and armored personnel carriers heading toward Tiananmen, the vast square that has been the center stage of Chinese politics for more than three centuries. Because troops stationed in Beijing might not comply with orders out of sympathy with the hunger strikers, the forces were drawn from nearby provinces. Many of the soldiers were peasant boys who had spent the previous week in camps outside the city. Forbidden...
...these actions were relatively noncontroversial and had no significant impact on the economy. To deal effectively with tougher issues like global warming, Bush will need to push for measures that require sacrifice and stir protest. Almost everyone agrees, for example, that the easiest way to cut carbon-dioxide emissions would be to reduce wasteful consumption of gasoline in the U.S. The Administration is expected to announce soon that by 1991 automakers will be required to raise the average fuel efficiency of their fleets to 27.5 m.p.g., up from 26.5 m.p.g. this year. That is a step in the right direction...
Sometimes for a flat fee, often for a guarantee plus commission, old and young stars typically stay four hours on a Saturday and Sunday in an assembly line of dreams. Behind their tables, the idols scarcely speak or stir. "No time for personalizing" is the rule of the promoters, who keep the kids moving along like sad-eyed paratroopers. It's said that quick-draw artist Pete Rose averages two seconds a $15 scrawl. According to the Boston Globe, Ted Williams made $100,000 in one weekend...
Siegel, who is comparatively mild-mannered as talk hosts go, joined KING last November. He has railed against local police for laxity in the antidrug war and against Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Lorenzo (he joined a picket line during the current Eastern strike). Soon he hopes to stir passions over the savings and loan bailout. "I'm not a Pied Piper," he says, "but I do believe in what...