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...what about the soap from Krasnodar's much vaunted factory? Following a local tip that he "go to the Black Hole, Dorofeyev found a 10-ft. breach in the factory's brick wall, through which workers peddled pilfered bars of the precious commodity for $7.50 a case. Security at the plant was so lax that Dorofeyev managed to parade right out the main gate, his pockets bulging with ill-gotten goods, without drawing more than an indifferent glance from the guards. The moral of the tale for Soviet shoppers: if you want clean hands, grease some palms...
...House floor vote expected in late April or early May, some 40 conservative Democrats who hold the balance of power may yet vote for a set of spending and revenue estimates closer to the President's figures than to those of their own party. House Speaker Tip O'Neill conceded last week that the Democrats are launching their counterbudget "at an inopportune time," when sympathy is rising for a President recuperating from an assassination attempt. In a visit to Reagan's hospital bed, O'Neill reported that his mail, which had swung against the White House...
...making, Leftfielder Tim Raines, 21. The team, painstakingly assembled through the farm system and presided over by Manager Dick Williams, a gruff but gifted fundamentalist, has produced a new top-flight player each year since the mid-'70s. Now there are enough in the lineup to perhaps tip the balance in a highly competitive division...
...sport star MIKE SMERCZYNSKI has a tip. "The best restaurant in Boston," says the Peabody native, "is Tecci's, right behind North Station." Smuzz, a fullback with the football team in the fall and a relief pitcher with ALEX NAHIGIAN's batsmen in the spring, lists a dish called Steak Mafia as the house specialty, and calls the prices "very reasonable...
...night, spoke to Kissinger and had "two, maybe three" glasses of wine. But, she testified, "They portrayed me as drunk." The Enquirer maintained that its information came from a normally reliable source (then freelance tipster, now Enquirer Columnist R. Couri Hay), that staffers had made efforts to verify the tip, and that a retraction ("These events did not occur") was published as soon as the tabloid learned it was wrong. Under California law a retraction severely limits damages against a newspaper involved in a libel action. But Judge Peter Smith ruled that the Enquirer was a magazine and thus...