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...seemed all but impossible for the Marines to turn over control of the airport to what is left of the Lebanese Army. This had been the U.S. goal only days before. Unless Gemayel chooses to ferry troops from East Beirut by helicopter, the Marines will have to abandon the airport to his Muslim foes...
...times his areas of expertise have served him well. Shultz persuaded the President to abandon an ill-conceived embargo on parts for the Soviet pipeline; he also shaped Reagan's ambitious 1982 Middle East peace initiative, which envisioned self-government for the Palestinians in association with Jordan. On arms control and relations with the Soviet Union, he has been able to moderate some of the President's rigidity...
Those are two glimpses of the world of young people in the Soviet Union, one as telling as the other. They can rock 'n' roll with happy abandon, but they do not demand the climate of freedom that spawned the Western youth culture in the first place. Their lack of interest in politics was evident last week in the absence of young faces in the procession to bid farewell to Yuri Andropov. "What goes on in the leadership is remote from our lives," said Volodya, 26, an engineer. "Besides, nobody asks our opinion...
MORE REFRESHING than all this is that the yuks betray an intelligent pattern or two. Taylor and Calnek aren't so dumb as to take themselves or the show seriously (a Battle of the Sexes satire in drag?), but they abandon the sterile money/sex/class warfare formula of recent years for some genuinely fresh jabs at popular culture. TV commercial references abound--"This is mutiny, men!" "Yeah, it'll take more than Bounty to clean up this mess." Missionary Position's Sun Myung Moon-esque paradise turns out to be McDonald's, with the preacher at his pulpit dispensing McNuggets...
...nuclear Reagan Administration, other utilities ignored the omens and pressed on with plans to expand their generating capacity in expectation that demand would soon come back. Still others kept building nuclear plants on the ground that it was often more economical to complete the multibillion-dollar projects than to abandon them. That assumption sometimes proved erroneous. Constructing nuclear plants has proved very expensive. In the early 1970s, says Charles Komanoff of the New York City-based consulting firm Komanoff Energy Associates, there was little difference in the construction costs of nuclear and coal-burning plants...