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...President may have been stung by the poor results of his stumping. When staffers greeted him with a sustained ovation at the Old Executive Office Building last week, Reagan quipped, "Based on my previous experience, I ought to quit right now." Even though Reagan's efforts did not preserve the Republican Senate majority, several of the more mediocre G.O.P. candidates would certainly have lost by larger margins if the President had not campaigned for them...
...require a balanced budget. He paid for his positions when Republicans won control of the Senate in 1980: conservatives persuaded Strom Thurmond to pass up the job as chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee and take over Judiciary in order to block Mathias from the post. That maneuver stung Mathias and contributed to his lonely independence...
...Sunday Times, which had been badly stung by publishing the faked Hitler diaries in 1983, treated Vanunu's account with caution. The paper flew the former technician to London, where he was debriefed for two weeks by a team of reporters and scientists. Before publishing, the newspaper also invited comment from Israeli government officials. They declined -- and quickly ordered up a search for the Times's talkative source...
...Stung by such signs of opprobrium, Syrian President Hafez Assad evidently embarked on a damage-control campaign by addressing the one issue that could restore some of Syria's image in the West: the 20 foreigners held hostage by Shi'ite extremists in Lebanon. As he has in the past when it served his purposes, notably in the release of TWA passengers hijacked to Beirut in 1985, Assad asserted his authority with the Shi'ite groups and apparently arranged for at least a token hostage release. Waite, whose patient efforts to end the hostage crisis were well known to Syria...
...University of the Philippines, where he mingled with the Filipino elite. His classmates included Vice President Laurel, whose father had been President during the Japanese occupation of World War II, and Cabinet Executive Secretary Joker Arroyo, the scion of a land-rich family. Enrile has been particularly stung by his exclusion from Aquino's inner circle, which includes Arroyo, one of his most bitter rivals...