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...speculation that the Reaganites might wrest power from Chairman Paul Volcker, and perhaps even goad him into resigning, has proved to be off the * mark. Despite a brief, publicized dispute over a discount-rate cut in February, the Reagan appointees -- Johnson, Martha Seger, Wayne Angell and H. Robert Heller -- have generally worked well with Volcker and his allies Henry Wallich and Emmett Rice. Only Seger, a former Michigan bank regulator, has publicly sniped at Volcker. One of her complaints: the central bank's staff, which answers to the chairman, does not keep the other Fed governors fully informed...
...away at work, Molly watches Leo take a shower; what follows is either a brief, innocent mistake or an instance of child molesting, depending on who makes the judgment. Molly's father, hearing his little daughter talk of this event, goes understandably bananas and instigates legal proceedings to wrest custody of the child from her mother...
...Knights are on their way to the tournament final. And the Crimson--the favorite to wrest the ECAC tournament crown for the first time since 1983--is in the consolation game...
...officials feared that if Aquino ever took power, she would prove more susceptible to leftist pressure to remove the bases from Philippine territory. Others were concerned that an Aquino government would be unequipped to cope with the growing Philippine insurgency. Many simply did not believe that Aquino could ever wrest power from Marcos with anything less than armed force...
...semifinal action Sunday morning, Jernigan defeated Harvard's number-three player, Rusty Ball, while Niederman tripped up Harvard's second-ranked player, Darius Pendole, to earn a chance to wrest the title from Jernigan...