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...right or everything that is wrong with U.S. weapons policy. More likely it illustrates both at once. Though the M-l still has some technical problems, veteran tankers who have driven it say it is a superb machine, better than anything the Soviets can field. The M-l can whip around battlefields at 45 m.p.h., fire accurately on the run while other tanks have to slow down to aim their guns, and can survive a series of direct hits by antitank missiles...
...President's program is so popular in their districts that they dared not buck it. Says Deputy Democratic House Whip Bill Alexander of Arkansas, in a spirit of resignation: "Most people want the President to get his way because he promises to cure inflation and reduce taxes. The people believe him, so politicians have...
...dispatched Shriver in the semifinals and needed only 60 minutes to whip Mandlikova in the finals. Like Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Mandlikova is a player of vast talent and athleticism who has trouble harnessing her gifts and keeping her concentration. When she is good, as she was against Navratilova, no one can stay on the court with her; when she is bad, as she was against Evert Lloyd, most of the top players can beat...
Lefever's worst liability was not ideology but his own unsteady regard for the truth. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston, a Foreign Relations Committee member, came out of the final closed hearing last week citing half a dozen instances in which Lefever had stretched the facts. Lefever denied, for instance, having said his opponents were "Communist inspired...
...slide into disarray as violence escalated in Chicago's streets, phoned Rostenkowski from Texas and told him to take charge. Rostenkowski did, but only after snatching the gavel away from embarrassed Majority Leader Carl Albert. Two years later, Albert, then Speaker, vetoed Rostenkowski's nomination as majority whip. Rostenkowsi's golf buddy Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts got the nod instead and went on to become Speaker. Last November the whip's position was again within Rostenkowski's reach, but O'Neill needed a staunch loyalist to chair Ways and Means. Though...