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Berg's killing has also added a nasty twist to an ongoing ratings war in Miami, where six news/talk shows crowd the air, four in English, two in Spanish. Soon after Berg's death, Tom Leykis of WNWS told his listeners the real name of a popular, less vitriolic competitor who works at a rival station under the pseudonym Neil Rogers, and urged them to call and harass him. "Rogers," who received death threats in 1980 for his opposition to the arrival of the Cuban boat people, believes that Leykis was enabling listeners to attack...
...typically byzantine twist of Italian politics, the Christian Democrats actually celebrated the outcome of an election in which, for the first time, the Communist Party came in ahead, with 33.3%. What pleased the second-place Christian Democrats (33%) was that they had finally arrested their steady decline, slightly increasing their share from an all-time low of 32.4% in last year's national elections. The Communists' narrow victory actually owed much to a wave of popular sympathy following the unexpected death on June 12 of their charismatic leader, Enrico Berlinguer. Exclaimed the party daily L 'Unit...
Rauch: Yeah. There's the pleasure of doing an innovative twist. But ultimately the pleasure lies in doing it because it's the only...
...which shied away from holding formal hearings, raised more questions than it resolved. "The subcommittee believes that it has received responses from some of these persons that were not candid," its 2,313-page report said. "This prevented it from fully resolving the briefing-book issue." In a strange twist on an old metaphor, Chairman Albosta said: "We have a warm barrel, but the smoke is still to be found.'' Nonetheless, the report concluded that the Reagan campaign conducted "organized efforts" to obtain documents from the Carter camp...
...society that used mathematics, charted the heavens, invented a calendar and constructed elaborate irrigation canals. The wall decorations and inscriptions indicate that the occupant was a member of a ruling family, probably an administrator. Among the artifacts was an unusual jar with a screw-top lid, possibly the earliest twist-open container discovered in the Western Hemisphere...