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...have the feeling in the gut of my stomach that this kind of action cannot be tolerated in my community...We have to figure out how to handle police officers who think nothing of coming into communities and shooting it up," she said...
...combat Soviet power. Whether there is strong domestic political support for such a policy remains to be seen. Some of the Administration's own polling indicates that the public wants firm defense; but there is also broad support for arms control, and there seems to be little stomach for a new, all-out arms race or cold...
President Karmal, 51, whose political career has been checkered by purges, imprisonment and exile, comes across as a moderate who has little stomach for the intrigue that characterized the regimes of his two predecessors, Noor Mohammed Taraki and Hafizullah Amin. He said that his government would "warmly welcome" the scheduled visit of U.N. Special Representative Javier Pérez de Cuellar, who was due in Kabul as part of an ongoing search for a possible international settlement of the Afghanistan crisis. In that regard, Karmal also said that he was interested in bilateral talks with Pakistan, but, he added bitterly...
...clear things up. By 7 p.m. there was at least the start of a clearing up. To stage center stepped Dr. Dennis O'Leary of George Washington University Hospital, a gentle, cool customer, another instant media star. Secret Service Agent Timothy J. McCarthy was hit in the stomach, but doing well. D.C. Policeman Thomas K. Delahanty was hit in the shoulder and neck; his condition was stable. A .22-cal. bullet passed through Jim Brady's brain. And the President? He became his chest for the moment: the bullet entered here, bounced off this, settled in that. There...
...nautical miles in the course of four days, the cruising is done mostly by the passengers, whose pursuit of romance and adventure is as unrelenting as the wump-wump-klump of the slot machines. Even the popular drinks bear names that would turn an old salt's stomach: Virgin's Kiss, Coconut Cooler, Jamaican Dreams...