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However, I did not discover this battlezone immediately. If I had, I might have been able to transfer in time to avert the tragedy that has befallen me, that keeps me up at night bathed in a schizophrenic sweat, that has released my primordial, sub-human instincts and makes each day a living nightmare. Now, it's simply too late...
Some Jews ignore the implications of Israeli activities saying that unless one lives in this insecure land it is impossible to determine what is right and what is wrong. No Jew in the world should avert their eyes in that way. In the same way that South African racism deserves the special attention of Americans because it shares our claims to western heritage, Israel now must be my focus of criticism because...
...outmoded or has begun to deteriorate, says the Pentagon, and therefore is not a "credible deterrent." Officially NATO defense ministers concur, but some of them acknowledge that proposals to deploy new chemical weapons in Europe would provoke strong reactions among the public. The Soviets, in an effort to avert resumption of the U.S. program, finally admitted last spring to having chemical weapons but claimed to have stopped making them. In October they went so far as to allow Western inspection of their chemical-weapons facility at Shikhany...
...after two short years, do hundreds of thousands, even millions, again face starvation? While Western experts primarily blame the lack of rain, many place much of the responsibility on the shoulders of Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam, whose rigid and secretive Communist regime has done little to avert another tragedy. Not only does the Addis Ababa government seem more concerned with putting down various insurgencies than with feeding the hungry, but it has also continued policies that seem designed to aggravate rather than resolve problems of poverty...
...swap recipes, and she brings him vegetables from the country." After renting the house's upper floors to friends for years, Sondheim has expanded, allotting himself an office, a studio with a piano and an exercise room, where he cycles 40 minutes a day while watching old movies to avert a repetition of the mild heart attack that stunned him in 1979. Once a little pudgy, his short frame is now trim. But he does not dress to show it off: his clothing, like his manner, is no- nonsense informal and definitely not extravagant. Jewish by birth but not religious...