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While diplomats debated the Fahd peace plan throughout the Middle East, and Arab gulf state potentates met in Riyadh to discuss security arrangements, the U.S. was taking action of quite a different kind last week to buttress the region. The effort involved a long-planned sequence of military exercises in four friendly countries-Egypt, Sudan, Somalia and Oman-occurring over a month's time and involving some 6,000 U.S. personnel. Code-named Bright Star '82, the maneuvers are the biggest trial run yet for the still nebulous U.S. Rapid Deployment Force, which is eventually supposed to have...
...father. Eve was the first mother." Two plus two will always equal four, says a math lesson, just as "Thou shalt not kill" will always mean thou shalt not kill. In high school economics, students are taught the need to return to the gold standard-on biblical authority. (To buttress their policy academy economics teachers cite Isaiah 1: 22, "Thy silver has become dross, thy wine mixed with water.") The academy proudly reports measurable results of this curriculum, taught in strict classrooms by teachers who view their work not as a job but as a calling: the five-year-olds...
Control. Along with cool charm, good looks and an obsessive desire to walk in her husband's shadow, control is a buttress of Nancy Reagan's persona...
...program suggests that the brain-death criteria, particularly in Britain, are not strict enough and intimates that a factor may be the need for healthy organs for transplants. To buttress the show's argument, the producers described the experiences of five American patients who were thought dead but who survived. Only one was ever considered as a possible organ donor. Two were women who had taken drug overdoses, one was a premature infant, another was a man paralyzed by a muscle-relaxing agent. The most sensational case was that of a man who lost consciousness after suffering a heart...
...University of Massachusetts' Amherst campus the red brick façade of the 28-story library has turned into a new sort of flying buttress. Since last fall, chunks of brick have come crashing onto the surrounding concrete patio, which is now fenced off to protect passing students. At California's San José State University, badly fitting window frames caused drafts that sent shivering nude models scurrying from the art studio. The 30 models, aged 21 to 52, went on strike, in part because they were tired of posing clad only in "goose flesh." At San Francisco...