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...getting too upset, I told myself. At least, as the first one to arrive, I would have the privilege of picking the better of the two bedrooms. The first things I saw when I opened the left bedroom door were cans. Dozens and dozens of empty Bud cans carpeted the wooden floor. On the second glimpse, my unbelieving eyes met my first roommate crashed on the lower bed of a bunkbed, snoring the roof down. Still in shock I hurried to the other bedroom only to find another guy recuperating from a hard night's drinking. Instead of Brideshead Revisited...
...into an Entebbe-style victory for the whole nation. Seeing the blood-smeared bodies of the terrorists on the nightly news would have given us a nationwide jolt of exaltation. Imagine post Super Bowl euphoria in every city in the country, complete with chants of "Born in the U.S.A., bud" and high-fives in the streets...
...whether economic sanctions would work. "Unilateral American sanctions are totally ineffective," says Republican Newt Gingrich of Georgia. Gingrich was one of 35 Congressmen who recently asked President Reagan for stronger condemnation of South Africa, a move many saw as an attempt to nip last week's measures in the bud. Gingrich believes that the House bill would simply allow other countries to step in and fill the gap. There is evidence that France, Japan and Israel, which are already involved in the South African economy, would step in to fill gaps in nuclear, computer and weapons technology, respectively...
...stops. In daylight the city fades and blurs when the transients appear, tourists who merely want a meal and a tank of gas. They file into the carpeted dining rooms away from the professional drivers' side, sit at the Formica tables set off by imitation cloth flowers in bud vases. They eat and are gone, do not return. They are not a part of the city and obscure...
...making the U.S. more dependent on foreign oil. The oilmen even wangled a meeting with the President, who was reported to be fully conversant with oil tax shelters, having considered them for his own investments before he took office. "This is no light courtin' here," declares Oil Lobbyist Harold ("Bud") Scoggins. "We mean business...