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Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 labeled the House language "absurd" and asserted the military is "doing a very great deal" to fight drugs...
Last week Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger responded with understandable incredulity, describing the proposal as "pretty absurd." The Secretary emphasized the "historic separation of military and civilian activities that we've always had in our country, quite properly." He compared the House order to thwart drug trafficking in 1 1/2 months to the folly of King Canute, the 11th century monarch of England who, Weinberger said, "tried to order the tide not to come...
...soul deep, rock is, first of all, about feeling. Or so it is thought to be. But Simon's songs are also about thinking, about the half- rational process of measuring out passion in small portions, like time- release capsules, detonating long after consumption. They are stately, funny and absurd, with elusive rhythmic changes and melodic surprises that come up fast and take the tune off in a whole new direction...
Bhaktipada, 48, who was left partly deaf and slightly lame by the bludgeoning, dismisses the West Virginia investigations as "absurd." He claims that Bryant began attacking the sect because he thought it had caused his wife to leave him. "He was vindictive," says Bhaktipada. Is there dissension within the Krishna temples? The guru concedes, "We have differences of opinion...
...most sensitively rendered of nine crime tales of middle-class America. In each of them, Journalist Linda Wolfe sounds a persistent theme: warning signals usually precede "unpredictable" criminal acts. Her accounts are too brief for a true understanding of minds gone wrong, but she makes even the most absurd act -- and its subsequent explanation -- seem plausible. A carefully polished alibi is undone by an overlooked credit-card receipt. A medical researcher disappears, and the explanation lies in her $650 shopping spree at an A. & P. As Wolfe indicates, chance and coincidence were once the favorite devices of Victorian novelists; today...