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...King carried to Washington last week was one of outrage and anger. The British government, warned Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, was distinctly unhappy about what it sees as congressional attempts to delay the approval and water down the terms of a new supplement to the extradition treaty between the U.S. and Britain. King reminded members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Thatcher had allowed U.S. planes to attack Libya from British bases. She had also backed U.S. demands for a strong antiterrorist stance by the European Community. Now, King implied...
...order to reconcile the disparaging incomes of men's and women's friends groups, the friends took two different approaches. While most men's groups simply continued to supplement the women's income, the friends of crew and track opted for a different alternative...
...three years, said Walker, he spent a great deal of time trying to "subtly explore Whitworth's attitude toward espionage." In 1974, at a bar in San Diego, Walker finally persuaded his buddy, who had recently left his Navy communications job, to re-enlist and supplement his pay by handing over decoding information and top-secret cables. "I envisioned a plan where I would work as a go-between between a new recruit and the Soviets," said Walker during Whitworth's long-running espionage trial in San Francisco. His testimony amounted to an object lesson in what friendship should...
Robert Burchfield, editor of the just completed (after 29 years) supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary: "When we reached zilch and zillionaire, it was like having the finishing tape in sight in a marathon...
Today, to supplement his wages, Judkins sleeps with snakes. "You get a salary, which isn't much," he explained, "and then you try to do something else to earn some real money. Every circus is like that." In Judkins' case, this means driving a tractor trailer packed with anacondas, boa constrictors and pythons, as well as the odd tarantula, and sleeping in it too. At each town, he opens his establishment on the midway and charges people 75 cents to view his creatures. It is not exactly what he had in mind when he was majoring in psychology and political...