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...soon as plans for the summit were announced last Friday, speculation began on where it would be held. Locations mentioned included Camp David, the presidential weekend retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, and Williamsburg, Va., the colonial capital in which world leaders held an economic summit...
...family caucus at his Tudor house in suburban Arlington, Va., his four children had their say. According to notes taken by Daughter Kristin, 10, they agreed on the No. 1 negative: "Dad wouldn't be here a lot." Karenna, 14, worried about his relative obscurity compared with the front runner at that time: "It would be hard to get more publicity than Gary Hart." Gore's wife Tipper was also torn. Co-founder of the Parents' Music Resource Center, an organization that opposes rock lyrics featuring sex, violence, drugs or alcohol, she was just starting a national tour to promote...
Some suspected that Falwell's move was a ploy to get the judge to back down. But the Fundamentalist minister has ample reason to escape the PTL quagmire and pay closer heed to his troubled operations in Lynchburg, Va. Faced with a recent decline of $5.4 million in contributions to his own TV ministry, Falwell has just stopped purchasing time from 50 of the 340 stations that carry his show. Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye, basking in the resignation news at their mountaintop home near Gatlinburg, Tenn., said they were certainly willing to return if the creditors wished...
James Wright soon snatched his diploma and left for Kenyon College, eventually wandering far from the gritty industrial town strung along the Ohio River above Wheeling, W. Va., but he never really escaped the place. He couldn't. A hypersensitive youth who just happened to be set down amid swirling olive water and factory steam, Wright had had his poetic subject matter handed to him on a dinner plate. He neither forgot nor forgave the misery that he knew...
...Herbert H. Bateman (R-Va.) said it is simply not "the American way of doing business," and questioned what impact such a move would have on western allies helping in the escort effort...