Word: boxes
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That was hardly a compelling excuse for the slipshod embassy security (see box), especially since there had been public threats from a terrorist group that it would attack U.S. installations in Beirut. Moreover, the previous truck-bomb assaults (at the original West Beirut embassy on April 18, 1983, and the Marine headquarters near the airport last Oct. 23) should have been lesson enough that greater security was needed...
...Senator's inconsistency. Some of his ads ask: "Where will Charles Percy stand tomorrow? Only his pollster knows for sure." Percy's commercials tout "the Illinois advantage," alluding to his seniority, and attack Simon for sponsoring a symbolic bill in 1983 that would create a box on income tax returns for taxpayers to check if they do not want their payments to be used by the Pentagon...
...cases dangerously overdue, for top-level discussion between the superpowers. Negotiations over nuclear arms control have been at a standstill since late last year, when the Soviets broke off talks involving both strategic and medium-range weapons to protest the arrival of new U.S. missiles in Western Europe (see box). In June, Moscow proposed holding yet another round of discussions, this one aimed at preventing the militarization of outer space. But when the Reagan Administration quickly accepted, on the condition that the talks be broadened to include offensive weapons, Moscow in effect withdrew the invitation. The effort to limit...
Mondale's aides are counting heavily on the two TV debates with Reagan, which were firmly scheduled last week, to give their champion an opportunity to cut into the President's lead (see box). They claim to see evidence in private surveys that Mondale is starting to lure wavering Democrats back to his cause. At the moment, published national polls show the exact opposite, but it would not be surprising if Mondale's poll standings improve a bit, if only because they are scraping the rock-bottom minimum level of support that past election results suggest...
...might think that the debate had already been settled by the box office performance of last year's films. Black actors starred in three of 1983's six biggest hits: Eddie Murphy in Trading Places, Richard Pryor in Superman III and Jennifer Beals in Flashdance. This summer's two out-of-nowhere hits, the rap musical Breakin' and Prince's Purple Rain, suggest that movies with black themes can attract large mixed audiences. And yet these are a few glittering tokens; for most black actors and audiences, roles and role models are scarce. Though blacks...