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...Best American Short Stories is matched only by Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards as a dependable fiction barometer, it has always been the stodgier culling of the year's best. After longtime series editor Martha Foley died in 1977, Houghton Mifflin tried to "enliven the series and broaden its scope" by introducing annual guest editors. In the five years since the innovation, a number of editorial biases have been expressed, and this year Anne Tyler, author of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, got her chance...
...South African constitution will attempt to broaden the political base of the apartheid regime by extending suffrage to Coloreds and Indians--but not African Blacks...
Gould is one of several University officials and students who have worked to broaden perceptions at Harvard of the problem of rape by distributing a new pamphlet on the subject...
...Syrians hoped to weaken the Gemayel government, and here the Palestinians hoped to win a victory and perhaps a chance to return to West Beirut. The government and its army knew that they must make a stand. At midweek Gemayel, who has been slow in his efforts to broaden his political base or even to exert strong personal leadership during the current crisis, suddenly appeared at Suq al Gharb to visit his beleaguered army garrison, even as it came under yet another tank and artillery attack...
...Reagan Administration Suq al Gharb had become the key position of the "red line," the frontier beyond which the Druze and their allies could not sbe allowed to pass. For several weeks Special Envoy McFarlane had been pressing the Administration to broaden the Marines' role in Lebanon. At the time of the Israeli withdrawal in early September, McFarlane had proposed that Marines be used to take over certain military positions in the Chouf. He also sought permission to move the Marines into the Chouf as part of a cease-fire offer. In a rare display of agreement, Secretary of State...