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...undisputed No. 1 performer on U.S. TV. His show is a weekly catchall of the things the 40-year-old comic has learned in 35 hard-working years in show business. Berle uses not only his brash, strongbow-shaped mouth to get off his loud, fast, uneven volley of one-line gags; with expert timing and tireless bounce, he also hurls his whole 6 feet and 191 dieted pounds into every act of his show. His motto is still "anything for a laugh"-and practically anything he does gets...
...from Yeshiva University High School in Manhattan headed home by automobile to Queens on the Cross Bronx Expressway. A gunman, or gunmen, followed in a car, sped ahead of them on the expressway, and parked in waiting at an exit ramp. As the students neared the Whitestone Bridge, a volley from a high-powered automatic or semiautomatic M-16-type rifle rang out. One shot missed the students and killed Lucille Rivera, 37, a Queens mother of two who was a front-seat passenger in the vehicle next to theirs. A second blast ripped into the back seat...
...they may, leaders in Washington and other Western capitals last week could not extract much more from Moscow than the qualified expressions of regret that were heard on the streets. Instead, Soviet leaders responded with volley after volley of recriminations, continuing the defiant war of words with Washington that threatens to deepen the damage caused by the air tragedy...
...counter criticism, a volley of civil rights initiatives
...killing of the two Americans provoked a volley of charges and counter-charges between Honduras and Nicaragua. The Honduran government, which quietly allows the CIA to provide assistance to the contras based within its borders, accused the Sandinistas of violating Honduran sovereignty. The Nicaraguans, who claim to be at a disadvantage in the border fighting because they do not pursue the contras into their Honduran sanctuaries, denied responsibility for the killings. The incident, nonetheless, revealed just how precarious the situation has become along the mountainous border between the two countries...