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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eastwood neatly dodges questions about plans for another campaign when his two-year term expires next April. He is more adamant about persistent rumors that Republicans want him to run for Governor or Senator. "I don't give them a chance to breathe between sentences" before saying no, he growls. Meanwhile, he takes a kind of bemused pleasure in the minor crises that bedevil any small-town mayor. "If someone had told me two years ago that I'd be spending time in someone else's garage, deciding if it could be moved three inches to the north," he says...
South Padre Island began catching on with youth in 1982, as the decline of the peso spelled economic disaster for Mexican owners of the island's high- rise condominiums. Many of these units went on the market as short-term rentals. Thus for much less than the $140 price of a cramped hotel room, students can pool their resources for a two-bedroom luxury suite. Because it is only a 30-minute drive to the Mexican border, South Padre Island has benefited as more states raised their drinking age to 21. Last week chartered buses delivered revelers to the cantinas...
Toward the end of his second term, President Eisenhower remarked that he would like to see Robert Anderson, his Treasury Secretary, succeed him as < President. "Boy, I'd like to fight for him in 1960!" Eisenhower said. Anderson, who had also served as Eisenhower's Secretary of the Navy and Deputy Secretary of Defense, never ran for office. He became a businessman, an unofficial diplomatic envoy for President Johnson and chief negotiator of the Panama Canal treaty for President Nixon. Last week Anderson, 76, was again in the limelight, but for a different reason. He pleaded guilty to felony charges...
...what Bracy and Lonetree have revealed, U.S. officials are convinced that for more than a year, beginning in mid-1985, the Soviets read every important classified communication issued by the embassy; the assumption is that the intercept devices are still functioning. The security penetration could have other long-term consequences: the Soviets may have planted "trap doors" in the equipment that could cripple American communications with the embassy in the event of a crisis...
...palace guard has wielded far too much power to remain shrouded in obscurity. The character and competence of an Administration is often shaped by those who command offices in the West Wing of the White House. Such has been particularly the case with Ronald Reagan. In his first term, the fractious troika of James Baker, Edwin Meese and Michael Deaver exposed the often passive President to a wide diversity of opinion. In contrast, the ill-fated monolithic regime of Chief of Staff Donald Regan demonstrated that Reagan is far better served by a disparate team than a surrogate Prime Minister...