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Thatcher was interrupting final campaigning Monday to fly to Venice for a quick stop at the economic summit and a private meeting with Ronald Reagan. She made a similar trip four years ago to the Williamsburg, Va., summit, returning to find that her gesture of statesmanship had led to a boost in the polls, assuring her within days of her second victory. Venice may prove to be the ultimate photo opportunity. When the battlefield is imagery, that could be enough to cinch...
...Roanoke, Va...
...these places then? They are a form of urban organization -- or, sometimes, disorganization -- so new that demographers have not yet coined an accepted name for them. But outside almost every major American city, one or more counties are developing the characteristics of Du Page or Gwinnett or Fairfax County, Va., across the Potomac from Washington, or Orange County, between Los Angeles and San Diego, or Johnson County, Kans., next to Kansas City. These sprawling, increasingly dense suburbs might be called megacounties...
JAMES R. OLIN (D-VA...
Until last week, Falwell, a Fundamentalist Baptist from Lynchburg, Va., with his own TV-based spiritual empire, had been relatively reticent in detailing the sins of the Bakkers, who are Pentecostals. Obviously irked when Bakker leveled the charge during his first Nightline appearance, Falwell called a press conference that stretched over 90 minutes and even displaced the Iran- contra hearings on Cable News Network. Falwell fumed that Bakker "either has a terrible memory, or is very dishonest, or he is emotionally ill." He portrayed Bakker as a man consumed by avarice and said that he had documented evidence of homosexual...