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After U.S. Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia) strode from the podium after his keynote address to the convention, the blue and gold uniformed band members belted out "Dixie" for the Southern Republican...
Once upon a time, actors like Spencer Tracy (in Stanley and Livingstone) strode off to explore Africa with their pith helmets set squarely on their brows, their bush jackets neatly pressed and a chorus bawling Onward, Christian Soldiers on the sound track...
...steady downward slope of Duarte's tenure could be charted from one October to the next. His first October, in 1984, was a time of triumph as he strode into the small town of La Palma for the first of three meetings with leftist rebel leaders. A year later, as hostilities continued, tragedy hit home when Duarte's eldest daughter, Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, was kidnaped and held by rebels for 30 days. That October, Duarte personally supervised the complex negotiations that secured Ines' freedom, briefly abandoning his tough line with the guerrillas and freeing 25 political prisoners in exchange...
Bush came up with a new justification for his minimalist role last week. Angered by reports that he had made misleading and deceptive public statements, Bush strode into the press cabin on Air Force One en route to Colombia and announced that he would retaliate by holding fewer news conferences. "It's not good," Bush said peevishly about his usual availability to reporters. "It overdoes it. It's overexposure to the thing. So we've got a whole new ball game." Over the long run, a lack of credibility is much more damaging than a surfeit of attention...
Ordinarily Monsignor Jose Sebastian Laboa, the Vatican's Ambassador to Panama, greets visitors with a tray of coffee and cake. But when General Manuel Antonio Noriega strode into the papal embassy on Christmas Eve, such hospitality was hardly appropriate. The fugitive strongman was agitated, pacing the nunciature's marble floors like a caged tiger. The four aides who accompanied him were carrying suspicious vials of injectable liquids and an assortment of guns. Laboa demanded that Noriega relinquish the weapons. At first he refused, but then he apparently complied -- although a submachine gun was later found under...