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...that point the sting got stung. "Put your hands on the dashboard," ordered Walsh. "You're under arrest for attempted bribery." The FBI arrived to find five Bridgeport detectives and a Walsh-invited press contingent who were busily comparing Marra's electronic devices with their own. They had been listening over Walsh's identical body mike from across the street. The Feds demanded Marra, the bug and the cash. "I politely told them where to go," says Walsh. Marra went to jail. An embarrassed FBI was left muttering darkly about investigating who tipped off Walsh. "I smelled...
Ronald Reagan was stung. Asked about O'Neill's remarks as he was leaving his press conference, the President accused the Speaker of "sheer demagoguery." Reagan recalled the modest frame house his family rented in Dixon, Ill., where he lived from age eight to 13. "We didn't live on the wrong side of the railroad tracks, but we lived so close to them we could hear the whistle real loud. I know very much about the working group. I grew up in poverty...
...backyard, Jackie Onassis was stung by the publication of her "Dearest Ros" letter to Roswell Gilpatric, which was said to have driven Ari to Callas behavior. Billie Jean King's recent revelations were due less to a spasm of candor than to more than 100 letters she wrote her secretary. So it goes, from post to pillory. Lee Marvin made legal history a few years back when he lost a "palimony" suit to Michelle Triola Marvin. One of his letters to Michelle closed: "Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby, hey baby, hey baby, hey baby." It proved that...
...talks covered a wide array of subjects, ranging from Poland to the Middle East to the Third World. Still stung by Giscard's defeat, Schmidt predicted that incoming President François Mitterrand's economic program would quickly pose problems for France. Yet Schmidt also stressed that the new French leader should be welcomed into the Western alliance, and he offered to stop in Paris on his way home to deliver greetings from Reagan to Mitterrand. The offer was quickly accepted...
...negative game plan was out of character for O'Neill, whose style has always been more positive. When the President first began courting conservative Democrats by inviting 40 of them to breakfast, O'Neill was stung. The problem of how to deal with the disarming Reagan puzzled and gnawed at him. "I've never been up against a Republican like him," he told friends, pointing out that Dwight Eisenhower was also popular, but not as skillfully partisan as Reagan...