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...week-old trial has worn down several of those involved. Westmoreland, 70, and CBS News Correspondent Mike Wallace, 66, the show's lead interviewer, have required medical treatment for trial- or tension-related ailments. But the end is in sight. Judge Pierre Leval allotted each side 150 hours to make its case: Westmoreland has used about 140, CBS about 130. CBS Attorney Boies says that he anticipates calling only a few more witnesses. Among them: Wallace, who is more accustomed to asking questions than answering them...
...reputation as Britain's "Iron Lady." Thatcher, however, was soon back in form. As further details of the attack emerged and new security measures were carried out, she refused to bow to I.R.A. threats and spoke out as firmly as ever in deploring the nation's 33-week-old coal miners' strike...
...Community. Many Britons have made it a scape goat for the country's economic ills: a recent Gallup poll showed that only 33% of Britons consider membership "a good thing." Nevertheless, domestic politics had much to do with why Thatcher changed her stand. Her handling of the 17-week-old coal miners' strike, which has produced violence on a scale rarely seen in Britain, has contributed to a growing perception of the Prime Minister as stubborn and intractable...
...police department, which ordered the local fire brigade to clean up the mess. Within hours, after The Hague's firemen had attacked the foamy mountains with water hoses, the square was again clear. Other wildcat job actions and work slowdowns to protest the pay cuts continued, including a week-old nationwide mail strike that has left post offices with tons of undelivered letters piled almost as high as the foam in the Binnenhof...
...Iranian offensive was aimed at reasserting Tehran's authority over its own territory, some of which has been under the control of rebellious Kurdish nationalists, as well as seizing strategic chunks of Iraqi Kurdistan. The Tehran government claimed last week that its forces had captured 270 sq. mi. of Iraqi territory in the bloody week-old thrust, including several mountain strongholds...