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Above the city, on a high hill, stands a ten-story | statue of the Virgin holding the baby Jesus. A metal halo is riveted over the Virgin's head. One can enter the monument at the base and climb up inside it. Dan hesitates at the top because the protective wall has been shot away. This was a recent P.L.O. position. An antiaircraft gun was set up there. Below the Virgin, the Israeli army mills. "I hate war," says Dan, out of the blue...
Even as medical bills climb, 277 so-called health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are managing to keep their members healthy and out of the poorhouse to boot. HMOs are group-practice health plans in which a family pays a flat fee of, say, $160 per month, and in return is provided with comprehensive medical care, ranging from doctors' visits to heart surgery. The idea behind the plans is to reduce costs by making doctors and administrators accountable for healthcare expenditures...
...back out of the Panjshir Valley. As we reached the summit, we saw before us a seemingly unending stream of small guerrilla pack trains, each laden with heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, burlap sacks of ammunition, mortars and AK-47s. The horses stumbled as they tried to climb the zigzagging paths...
...Congress fails to dent the deficit, inflation and interest rates climb...
Israel's out-of-pocket costs in terms of weapons and lost civilian production could rise as high as $1.5 billion. But the figure will climb sharply unless the country soon withdraws its forces from Lebanon and returns to a more normal peacetime economic footing. Rising defense outlays are expected to push Israel's inflation rate, now growing at 110% annually, up to 150% in a year...