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...chanting demonstrators quickly surrounded the police, who had already used up their supplies of pepper gas, a concentrated and particularly painful form of tear gas. Outnumbered and overwhelmed, the police, many of them young conscripts, knelt in terror behind their riot shields, trying to fend off a torrent of rocks and gas canisters thrown by the students. The protesters began beating the police, then confiscating shields, helmets and other equipment. As the police were finally escorted to safety by student leaders, the crowd set fire to two piles of the collected gear...
...seven dizzying days that began with Hart confronting the Miami reporters behind his town house and ended with his Friday surrender produced a + torrent of titillating stories. Rice, who met with reporters in her lawyer's office in Miami, insisted that she and the former Senator were "just pals" and volunteered that she was "more attracted to younger men." Lee Hart, who played the role of long-suffering political wife with delicacy and dignity, tried to defuse the damage by saying about her husband's conduct: "If it doesn't bother me, I don't think it ought to bother...
...long way in the 111 years since Alexander Graham Bell made the first call on his invention, summoning his assistant from an office down the hall with the words "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." Today Bell might simply look at his telephone and say, "Call Watson." A torrent of new technology is turning the plain old telephone and its push-button heirs into sophisticated electronic instruments that are part phone and part computer. They can remember frequently used numbers, block out unwanted calls and listen to voice commands. Once available only to business customers, these "smart" telephone features...
...torrent of technology is turning the plain old telephone and its push- + button heirs into sophisticated electronic instruments. Among other things, they block out unwanted calls and listen to voice commands. -- Fujitsu drops its bid for Fairchild. -- Wall Street' s spreading scandal fells Stock Trader Boyd Jefferies. -- Independent filmmakers steal the scene in Hollywood...
...Judgment, according to ancient religious tradition, all secrets will be revealed and all hidden sins bared. The report on Iranscam that a presidential commission is due to make public Thursday will not quite measure up to that standard. But as the torrent of leaks and revelations last week made clear, the document will lay open all manner of embarrassing foreign policy secrets and possibly point to some indictable misdeeds as well. As publication day approached, an almost palpable sense of fear settled over the , White House. Some aides went so far as to speculate that, depending on how Ronald Reagan...