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...Prince Philip, 62, were whisked around with such speed and caution that few average Jordanians got much of a glimpse. Politically, though, Arabs were pleased (and Israelis miffed) by her Foreign Office-prepared statement pledging that Britain would support "a just and lasting solution to the tragedy that has befallen the Palestinian people...
...course, the deal is creating losers as well. Atlantic Richfield, for example, outbid by Socal for Gulfs stock, will have to pay several million dollars in fees to the 61 banks that raised $12 billion to support the Arco offer. Setbacks have also befallen investors, many of whom began selling their Gulf shares last week as the market turned against them, fearing that the merger would be blocked. Said one speculator: "We got hurt two days in a row on this. What's the sense of being right if you're losing money...
That happy circumstance has befallen Slab Boys, a burst of bitter memory from Scottish Playwright John Byrne about the hopeless nights and dreamless days of young men who grind dyes in the "slab room" of a carpet factory near Glasgow. When first produced in New York, off-Broadway in 1980, the play seemed a programmatic denunciation of the social order, as personified by two pompous functionaries and by a blazered young prig who was passing through the slab room on his foreordained...
Gaddafi is equally furious with Yasser Arafat and the central P.L.O. leadership for agreeing to leave Lebanon. "The fact is that right-wing Palestinians and right-wing Arab regimes have been accomplices in bringing about this shameful catastrophe, this disaster that has befallen the civilians [of Lebanon] and this threat to international peace. I believe the current leadership [of the Palestinians] has lost the justification for its existence. Out of this whole situation will perhaps come a new leadership that will be able to undo the disaster in Beirut, one that will be able to take over from...
...visible qualms about describing an uncannily similar "incident" that has since befallen a friend of hers who "writes about angora sweaters" for a Toronto lifestyles journal, one who, in fact, partly sparked her idea for Rennie's character. The coincidence apparently does not strain Atwood's credulity. "The normal thing about normal people is that strange things happen to them. Usually, you have to tone down reality to make it fictionally probable...