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...arrived, particularly in the Manchester neighborhood where his Greek-immigrant father Panos first settled in 1912. Dukakis appeared able to relax now that he no longer had to purport to be fascinated with Iowa farm problems or subdue his natural 78- r.p.m. speech rhythms. While he did not fully abandon his innate caution, he did seem more adept at sniping at his rivals. He even feigned ire when Simon called him a manager rather than a leader. "When a fellow comes to town and calls me a technocrat," said the Governor, who normally delights in talking about industrial incubators...
...spell disaster for U.S., Israeli, Egyptian, and Jordanian interests in the Persian Gulf. With any increase in power, the fanatic Iranian government would further destabilize the situation in the Middle East, she says. Thus U.S. policy in the Gulf should be aimed at preventing future Iranian hegemony. Policymakers should abandon their current neutral stance in the Iran-Iraq struggle and openly back Iraq, contiues Mylroie's arguement...
...vanguard, says Mylroie. This status earns Syria recognition and monetary support from Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union. Mylroie says that to achieve a peace settlement, the U.S. should deemphasize negotiations with Syria and concentrate on talks with such states as Iraq and Jordan, which are more likely to abandon their strong anti-Israel stances...
...assistant editor of Middle East Insight magazine, Raymond Stock, also praises Mylroie's political arguments. "She's argued forcefully and persuasively that the U.S. should back Iraq in the war and abandon its supposedly neutral position," he says. The originality of her scholarship lies in the professor's "unabashedely pro-Iraqi stance...
...export them to the Third World for $600 to $800 apiece. "In the more than 6,000 cases of pacemaker reuse around the world, there has never been a single reported incident of malfunction attributable to reuse," declares I.T.I. President John Elsholz. If a pacemaker works, he reasons, why abandon it? The company has applied to the Food and Drug Administration for approval, and hopes to begin shipments by June...