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American officials gradually came to realize that information was leaking from the embassy. But according to CBS, they did not actually discover the bugs until 1984, after receiving an informal tip from the foreign service officers of a friendly nation that they had detected the bugging of some of their embassy's typewriters. The most damaging discovery was that at least some of the compromised typewriters were situated in the embassy's political section, the group responsible for providing policymakers in Washington with assessments of the private workings of the ruling Politburo, the Central Committee and other top-level Soviet...
Kampelman, a politically savvy Democrat, endured his negotiator-turned- lobbyis t status without complaint. He shuttled between 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill, met privately with House Speaker Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts, an MX opponent, and coordinated strategy with Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois over a tuna-fish sandwich. He lectured House members on the folly of giving away bargaining tools to the Soviets: "As they enjoy the apple that falls from the tree that they did not have to pay for, they quite understandably wonder what other fruit will fall from that tree that they...
With help from colleagues at Stanford University, where he teaches, Langston located Lopez and had her hospitalized. A tip from a neurologist in Watsonville, 30 miles away, led him to two more cases: a pair of brothers, both addicts in their 20s, with advanced Parkinson's symptoms. By now Langston was alarmed. He called a press conference to announce that bad heroin was on the streets; he urged that anyone suffering from stiffness and tremors come forward. The appeal uncovered three more cases...
...just become the best- selling nonfiction hardcover in history: more than 1.5 million copies are in print.* Hundreds of new devotees write to Iacocca each week, more than 25,000 during the past five months, often beseeching him to run for President of the U.S. In Washington, House Speaker Tip O'Neill says that Iacocca, with Senator Gary Hart and New York Governor Mario Cuomo, is among the most plausible contenders for the 1988 Democratic nomination. During January and February alone, Iacocca was asked by 1,270 different groups to give speeches. Out on the street in any city, strangers...
Some of Reagan's own Cabinet officers have quietly urged business acquaintances to turn up the heat on the President. Reagan friends have suggested a Camp David summit on the deficits, with Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and House Speaker Tip O'Neill. The President smiles and waits...