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...this fall Sunday afternoon, it is dark and warm and crowded with men. The bar is thick with the sound of gruff voices and the smoke of Top Stone cigars and the odors of stale beer and newsprint from the sports sections of the Bridgeport Post-Telegram, the Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant, the New York Times, the New York Post and the New York Daily News, all of which are strewn about the small room. There is a darkened pool table in the corner. A silent, unblinking pinball machine. A deck of cards scattered across a deserted table...
...said, It seems the national Democrats have already ordered ice to cool the champagne for a World Series locker room-like celebration in the Oval Office in '88--one to which Reagan presumably wouldn't send a congratulatory telegram. "The voters have rejected Reaganism!" their thinking goes. "Don't you see? They like Reagan-but not his philosophy!!" That's probably true. But to think that voters went for Democrats because the Dems formed, let alone articulated, some sensible, coherent alternative to Reaganism is just ridiculous...
...Tamer served five years for a 1934 bank robbery. In 1979 federal prosecutors alleged he had operated a Las Vegas hotel casino as a front man for Vito Giacalone, a reputed member of the Detroit Mafia. Before Jackie, Walter or the others could comment, Tamer declined the honor by telegram. "Continue your good work," he urged. A new Lebanese honoree will be named shortly...
...July 25, two weeks after Andrei was released from the hospital, he began another hunger strike. Once again he sent a telegram to Gorbachev. Two days later, as we were just about to go out, the doorbell rang, and Dr. Obukhov appeared again with his crowd of eight followers. There was something almost playful in his voice when he said, "Well, Andrei Dmitrievich, we're back for you." When I pictured them throwing Andrei down on the couch and giving him an injection again, I couldn't stand it. I said to him, "Andryushenka, just...
Then we received a telegram saying that the trial of Alexei Smirnov was beginning. On May 12, I went to Moscow. Smirnov would be tried the next morning.* I pictured the stairs to the bridge over the railroad tracks -- it had to be crossed to reach the courthouse. So many had been tried there: Bukovsky, Krasnov-Levitin, Tverdokhlebov, Orlov (Yuri Orlov, a dissident, and his wife Irina Valitova are being released in the wake of the Daniloff affair), Tanya Velikanova, Tanya Osipova, among...