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...from the past. The Chicago Tribune took fans back to the days when the Cubs were fighting for their last pennant (1945) and the White Sox for theirs (1959). Or else the papers had fun concocting elaborate fantasies. The San Francisco Examiner invented a staff writer named "Grant Wheat" (tip of the cap there to the late Grantland Rice) who proclaimed the strike settled on Tuesday and then proceeded to march the teams through a schedule full of offbeat surprises-terrible hitters suddenly erupting in orgies of homers, for example...
...flight plan, exact details of which remain secret, skirted the southern tip of Jordan, then proceeded northeast across the top of Saudi Arabia. From time to time the jets would flash over a reference point, and the group leader would radio a code message ("sand dune yellow") to the war room in Tel Aviv's Defense Ministry building. The warplanes remained well beyond the range of U.S.-operated AWACS radar aircraft currently assigned to the Saudis and patroling the country's Persian Gulf perimeter. The job of the one AWACS that was airborne at the time was solely to survey...
...talks, fittingly, were held at Sharm el Sheikh (renamed Ofira by the Israelis), the port city near the southern tip of the last stretch of the Sinai that is due to revert to Egyptian sovereignty next April. Each leader brought along an entourage: Begin's included Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon; Sadat was aided by Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan...
Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin is out of his mind to criticize Tip O'Neill for lacking zeal hi fighting the Republicans on the budget. Even we card-carrying liberals know that taxes are too high and waste too great to avoid budget cuts...
Rostenkowski's options were suddenly unattractive. He could abandon hopes of a compromise, as his leader Speaker Tip O'Neill advocated, and thereby provoke a direct confrontation with the Administration. That would leave him open to an end run by the White House, which a month ago corralled enough conservative Democrats on the budget vote to humiliate the House Democratic leadership. Perhaps as bad, Rostenkowski could wind up winning a hard-fought vote against the Administration-only to have his party share the blame henceforth for unsolved economic ills...