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...Germany runway models, native and foreign, do not often pose in the studios, and it is they who, as mannequins traditionally are supposed to do, spend their nights in discos and their long weekends at Gstaad or the Costa Smeralda. The American photo models, at least in a widely sworn-to stereotype, are highly professional and somewhat alarming creatures who arrive punctually, work hard and project such Teutonic brown qualities as hair in youth, curlers vivacity, and radiance and good humor. They fit in well with the businesslike atmosphere of the German studios. Off-camera, they baffle local playboys with...
...began at 11:42 a.m. in Washington as a Marine baritone, Michael Ryan, launched into the third verse of America the Beautiful. 'O beautiful for heroes proved/ In liberating strife," he sang from the podium on the Capitol's West Front, where in minutes Reagan would be sworn in as President. At that moment, the news began to spread of a wire-service bulletin, "Hostages free." A murmur emanated from those in the vast crowd who had brought their radios...
Once the hostages were airborne and the new President had been sworn in, live satellite hookups swiveled from Washington to Algiers to West Germany to the home towns of dozens of hostages. When the hostages deplaned in Algiers, each network had an ex-hostage on hand in the studios. At NBC, seeing the hostages safe in Algiers, former Captive Lloyd Rollins began to speak of Iranian mistreatment of the Americans. One shocking revelation: some had been forced to play Russian roulette. At CBS, as former Hostage Richard Queen quietly named each returning American descending the airplane ramp, Dan Rather...
...request, he testified under oath. Behind him sat Wife Patricia, Son Alexander, 28, and Brother Francis, a Jesuit priest. The former four-star general began by reading, in forceful tones, a well-reasoned, 20-page statement, in which he reminded the Senators that he had given sworn testimony on eight occasions about his actions during Watergate and other controversial events during the Nixon Administration, and that "none of these investigations has found any culpability on my part...
When Apollo Milton Obote, 56, was sworn in for a second term as President of Uganda last week, he gained an unusual opportunity for an African leader: a second chance to rule his country. It was Dictator Idi Amin Dada who had ousted him in a military coup nine years ago. The challenge facing Obote is immense. Uganda, once known as the "pearl of Africa "for its productive agriculture, fine schools and superbly equipped hospitals, is today a nation in ruins. Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White reports...