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Ultimately, it is the Lebanese who will have to find the solution to their fractured country's problems. In reiterating their intention to stand by their commitments, the foreign ministers of the countries participating in the Multi-National Force stressed that they expected the Lebanese to stop their chronic warring. Said Shultz: "The leaders of Lebanon owe the people of Lebanon and the international community a real effort to pull themselves together...
...lesson to be drawn from the present turmoil is that Israel's refusal to compromise on the Palestinian issue has created a chronic and festering crisis in the region. Says William Quandt, a Brookings Institution fellow who served on the National Security Council during the Carter Administration: "Israeli military activity over the past five years turned a problem into a catastrophe." It is a situation in which so far the U.S. has not found much remedy, only trouble. Notes Quandt: "The Marines needed to be part of a political process that was achieving some progress in order to have meaning...
...impression was one of smooth ness, earnest professionalism, clarity of purpose. Would that U.S. foreign policy were nearly so confident and focused. In fact, the politicking that led to McFarlane's appointment made it clear that the officials who shape foreign policy are divided by chronic personal and ideological disputes. Those rifts have reappeared, diverting the principals' energies at a particularly volatile, complicated moment for U.S. interests abroad. Lebanon is threatening to explode again in the wake of the devastating attack on U.S. Marines. Combat is also intensifying in Central America, drawing the U.S. more deeply into local...
Boston has chronic illnesses that a brief burst of high spirits will not cure. Of the 30 largest U.S. cities, according to the Census Bureau, Boston is among the poorest, ranking 26th in median household income. The housing stock has deteriorated badly, and rent control, whatever its virtues, does not encourage renovation. Next year's municipal budget deficit is estimated at $40 million. Yet there are King and Flynn: with both men and their constituencies earnestly committed to solving those problems, happier days may be here again...
...persons are eligible to give blood if they have been medicine free for five days, have had no cold symptoms for three days, have no chronic diseases, and have no history of migrane headaches, according to Marilyn Yanak of Dana-Farber...