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...Your article "Murder of the Alter Ego," about the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco [Dec. 31], concludes with the statement: "The aging Franco had only two choices-to liberalize his regime or face the threat of having his country racked by more violence...
...those who supported him claimed there would be little change during the one year that the proposal would be in effect. If the resolution proved to have adverse affects, they argued, it could be repealed by next year's CHUL. But this argument does not justify the move to alter Radcliffe, and anyone who has followed the history of Harvard housing plans knows that "temporary" solutions are often difficult to revoke...
...novel ends, appropriately, in an electricity blackout. So phantasmagoric is the normal life of the Sohier family and their friends that the power failure does not seem to alter their behavior dramatically. If these people were germs on one of those glass plates used in general-science courses, they would be the kind that mad Army biologists yearn to drop on Russia. But they move, thrive and incontestably have life. Whether this is a good thing or not is a judgment the author does not make...
...clues Kieu provides to Vietnamese attitudes. Like the heroine of the poem, a great many Vietnamese today believe that they are being punished for some collective sin committed in the dim past. The Tale of Kieu holds out hope that virtue will be rewarded, that free will can alter a person's karma. But it is a slim hope for a people who have known centuries of war and endured a series of foreign occupations. As Translator Thong writes in the introduction: "By an accident of history, the autobiography of a divided soul [Kieu's] has come...
...those petrodollars, pet-rofrancs, petromarks, petropounds and petroyen to expand their own undernourished economies. Because most Arab nations are not sufficiently industrialized to present lucrative investment prospects, the wealthy nations have parked their money in Western banks. That is a situation they will not move quickly to alter, since a rapid withdrawal of the funds could provoke monetary aberrations that would lower the value of their holdings. As one Beirut economist pointed out last week: "The Arabs are among those most interested in a stable monetary system. They stand to lose the most from monetary instability...