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...much as he did. "We ought to declare victory," said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar. "Not for our bill but for a unified policy toward South Africa." Many Democrats, on the other hand, were not happy at the thought that a Republican $ President had stolen their thunder and fought to continue the confrontation. Some complained that Reagan's measure failed to include a proposal to put South Africa on notice that the U.S. will impose even stronger sanctions if Preto- ria refuses to work toward re- form. Scoffed House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "The President did a somersault...
...game, Murder, She Wrote. Traditionally, notes Tinker, "people go to CBS for 60 Minutes, and many of them just sit there all night long, through some rather indifferent programming. With Amazing Stories we're asking them to get up and change that dial. And if we do hear the thunder of dials across the land, the whole face of Sunday night will change, because maybe they won't come back to CBS." NBC is spending about $800,000 per half hour--twice the budget of an ordinary show--and has committed to 44 episodes, or two years on the schedule...
...book's subtitle, A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor, is a trifle deceptive, calling up images of Robert Mitchum tooling down Thunder Road. Bunting is no stranger to gunplay and squealing tires. He once got so entangled in an electrified fence, a colleague remembers, that "each of his fingers had lightning bolts shooting out of them." But the struggle that really interests Bunting involves an almost courtly game of wits between him and the various owners of illegal stills...
...embassy in Tehran in 1979 and 1980, the militants trampled and burned an American flag and chanted, "Death to Israel and America, the Great Satan." Though their hatred of the U.S. was genuine enough, one purpose of their demonstration in the early summer heat was to steal a little thunder from Amal, with whom they are in conflict for the leadership of Lebanon's 1 million Shi'ite Muslims...
...pictures he made at machine-gun pace were too ordinary to sustain his eminence. He was still a star, but in spite of his work, not because of it. Worse, a new black phenom, with just as much on the ball and a better batting average, stole Pryor's thunder. Now he works in the shadows, a batting practice pitcher for All-Star Eddie Murphy...