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...that Hersh had lost interest in the matter. Korry says the Timesman approached him on several occasions, first in 1976, offering to report afresh the Chilean story if Korry would talk with him about secret intlligence activities...
...stuccoed office in Holly Hill, Fla., he watched the Dow Jones briefly hit 1013.13 before closing the day at 1004.69, a four-year high. In his Jan. 3 newsletter, he had predicted that the market could easily go up another 50 points from its level of 963.99, but looking afresh at the indicators he follows, Granville decided that the top of this bull market had been reached. Says he: "It involved no decisions on my part. I was just following the theory, and once we had a closing-day high above 1000, I had to give the sell signal...
...Phantoms dueled in the skies overhead, tanks were battling on the ground, yet again, over a patch of disputed frontier. Iraq and Iran have been skirmishing along their border for nearly two years, ever since the downfall of the late Shah. The fighting did not spread, but it underlined afresh the edgy, mercurial state of the Persian Gulf region, repository and supplier of so much of the world...
...contemptuous of history. As Descartes said, historians are people who spend a lifetime attempting to discover facts about Roman life that any illiterate serving girl in Cicero's time knew well. History was dank with error, irrationality and the poisonous influences of Europe. The New World began afresh. The vast continent of America seemed an immense, wild Eden to be mastered...
...arrest of a top general reveals afresh power struggle...