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...champion in history demanded the ouster of World Chess Federation President Florencio Campomanes, who is up for re-election in 1986 and whom Kasparov accuses of favoring Karpov. The mandatory title defense "is perfectly illegal," said Kasparov in an interview in Le Figaro, "and I don't have to submit to Campomanes' dictatorship." Since capturing the world championship from Karpov in November, the feisty, flamboyant Kasparov has taken some time off to enjoy the beaches near his hometown of Baku in Azerbaijan. But last week's challenge to Campomanes, announced in Amsterdam, where Kasparov had played a match, looked like...
...network's bulwarks of integrity. Fred Friendly, Murrow's longtime associate, admits that "the relationship between Murrow and Stanton was strained" but asserts that the CBS president later became one of the news division's firmest defenders: "He was willing to go to prison rather than submit outtakes of [the CBS documentary] The Selling of the Pentagon. " Stanton, who retired from CBS in 1971, has not seen the movie but says that, in general, "I feel negatively about docudramas." Despite the unflattering portrayal, he adds, Actor McMartin wrote him an admiring letter...
Eavesdropping Overheard in New York www.overheardinnewyork.com Amusing verbatim accounts of stuff people say to each other in public. Anybody can submit; just email your (brief) transcript to the editors for consideration. Overheardintheoffice.com is equally hilarious. Warning: on both sites, some material is not suitable for children, and profanity, stupidity or bigotry is generally kept intact...
...Clause, as it said in a letter to the Department of Defense. Congressional reaction, however, has been split. Last month Steve Israel, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, introduced what he thought would be a popular amendment to a defense-spending bill requiring the Air Force to submit a plan ensuring religious tolerance and full religious freedom at the academy. Opposition by the committee's Republican majority was so fierce that he withdrew it. Said Republican committee member Walter Jones: "I think we've got too much concern about political correctness." Jones is pressing for hearings on religious...
...little public outcry over the plants' vulnerability. Japanese nuclear watchdog groups are mostly also anti-gun. Armed guards will just "intimidate local residents and infringe on their rights," says Baku Nishio, co-director of Tokyo's Citizens' Nuclear Information Center. Japan does not legally require nuclear-plant workers to submit to background checks...