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...found his fighter.When Ulysses S. Grant took command in the East, Lincoln didn't, for once, demand specific plans. Six weeks later Grant had lost more men than every general before him, but Robert E. Lee's army was bottled up in Petersburg, Va. "Hold on with a bull-dog grip," Lincoln urged Grant. Unlike his predecessors, Grant...
...office, the salaries of his personnel, his equipment, his insurance and his own retirement plan, all of which are provided by the military for its physicians. It may be difficult for the military to attract doctors, but not because of salary. Carie D. Buckley III, M.D. Staunton, Va. Shcharansky's Survival...
Your wonderful and otherwise informative magazine is becoming seedy and trashy by covering the adventures of Ralph and Wanda. Paul W. Moran Alexandria, Va...
Although the raids took place nearly 500 miles apart, they were staged almost simultaneously and went off without a hitch. At dawn in the leafy, colonial town of Leesburg, Va., local officers, state police and federal agents surrounded two buildings that house the headquarters of Right-Wing Extremist Lyndon LaRouche. In Quincy, Mass., seven FBI agents entered a branch office of Caucus Distributors Inc., a LaRouche-run company, and seized documents. Later the same day a federal grand jury in Boston handed up a 117-count indictment charging ten defendants with obstruction of justice and more than $1 million...
...heavyweight fight here. The poetic, peripatetic former boxing champion was in Egypt to announce the launch of a two-seater sports car, to be called the Ali 3 W.C. (for three world championships). The $25,000-to-$30,000 item will be turned out in South Boston, Va., starting next year, and the first batch will be marketed in the Middle East, where the Muslim convert's name is one to reckon--and advertise--with. The major backer of the more-than-$10 million project is Saudi Billionaire Sheik Mohammad Al Fassi (he of the former pea-green Beverly Hills...