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Among Washington's moderate Arab friends in the Middle East, the redeployment and the thunder of U.S. naval batteries produced a different kind of apprehension. For the most part, the moderate Arab states were caught between a fear of weakening U.S. power and prestige in the region and a concern that increasingly direct U.S. confrontation with Syria would harden the lines between Arab states, on the one hand, and the U.S. and Israel, on the other. The latest U.S. military moves were particularly troubling for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who, along with King Hussein of Jordan, is scheduled...
Columbia's advantage, however, proved quite fleeting as a strategic Harvard timeout quieted the fearsome thunder of the New York crowd. When the Crimson returned to the court, it was able to slow the frenetic pace and regain control of the contest...
...Cowboys nut, is weakening. He may attend along with Michael Deaver, another of the Reagan triumvirate. Senator Paul Laxalt heads south, and so does Cabinet Officer William Brock, the President's trade expert. Watergate Judge John J. Sirica will be under Cooke's wing, loving the thunder on the turf and delighted he won't have to make a single call all day. Restaurateur Duke Zeibert is aboard. "Politicians are kids too," he says. He should know, having filled their ample stomachs for 30 years. If the Hogs do their work, he will bake them a cake...
...Matt Houston, Trauma Center, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Cutter to Houston and The Fall Guy. Coptermania is the current craze. The air waves are bristling with blades, and gyrating, swooping chase sequences have become as common as the earthbound, four-wheeled variety. ABC's new series Blue Thunder (derived from the movie of the same title) features a mean, blackbottle fly of a police chopper that is essentially an aerial machine gun equipped with supersnooping devices. Next week CBS launches Airwolf, about a supersonic CIA attack helicopter that is invisible to radar. One of its pilots, Ernest Borgnine, decorously...
...date set for its public release kept slipping. Press briefings were promised, then canceled. Finally, with no advance notice, President Reagan stepped into a largely empty White House briefing room and stole some of the report's expected thunder. With his flak for drama, Reagan announced, "If there is to be blame, it properly rests here in this office and with this President. I accept responsibility for the bad as well as the good...