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...rejecting the extremes of both right and left. In our cover story this week, we examine the nation's emotional yet orderly transition from dictatorship to democracy. Madrid Correspondent Karsten Prager was struck by Spain's ability to emerge so smoothly from a political vacuum. "There are not many parallels," says Prager, "even though the political changes of the past 18 months might have gone deeper, and even though reform was not so much negotiated as conceded...
...year. Has it really changed the political status of black people? Has it changed jobs and wages? Whatever action has been done has not brought material benefits to us at all. All we've done is create some awareness of ourselves overseas. There is going to be a vacuum for some time...
...wisdom. His sharp political instincts usually keep him several steps ahead of his adversaries. Says a Burns friend, John Whitehead, senior partner at the Goldman, Sachs investment banking house: "He lives in a political world. He realizes that as head of the Fed he cannot operate in a vacuum." Indeed, Burns has been accused of playing politics-especially of allowing the money supply to overexpand in 1972 to spur the economy and thus ensure the re-election of Nixon. Burns calls the charge ridiculous...
Kenny Baker. A machine that looks like a tank-type vacuum was built around him, with lights that he could switch on and off and legs into which he could fit his own. Other Artoo models were built -some scenes have three or four moving all at once-for radio control...
...into the Jackson house to put out a smoky blaze. They found Mrs. Jackson dead on the kitchen floor, a .22-cal. bullet wound in her stomach. Police, searching the house, soon found bizarre confirmation of the tales about her wealth. Stashed around the place, in toolboxes, drawers, a vacuum-cleaner bag and a garbage can, was some $5 million in crisp bank notes, mostly hundred-dollar bills. An investigation revealed that over a period of time, she had withdrawn at least $8 million in cash from her bank-meaning that some $3 million was missing. Some burglars, the cops...