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...years ago, when the Postal Service sat and waited for business to come its way, it is now aggressively courting customers. For example, it is countering the new overnight carriers with its fast-growing Express Mail, which for $9.35 promises next-day delivery. Another new service is E-COM (for electronic computer-originated mail), which allows transmission of messages to 25 special post offices throughout the U.S., where they are printed and distributed as first-class mail. The Postal Service, though, has yet to make it profitable...
...trucks that might be loaded with dynamite. The new public affairs officer seems dismayed that a reporter will ask him questions about the 224th Military Intelligence Battalion, a 300-man outfit that came here a month ago from Hunter Air" Force Base in Savannah, Ga. The unit's com-ound-within-a-compound is surrounded by a triple layer of barbed concertina wire and decorated with signs that say in both English and Spanish that the area is not to be either entered or photographed, and that the use of 'deadly force' is authorized against anyone...
...Unemployment is not expected to decrease, but the rise in the number of jobless will halt and remain at this year's level of 10.5%. Said Samuel Brittan, assistant editor of London's Financial Times: "Europe clearly is a tortoise when com pared with the U.S. and Japan, but it is not a tortoise in relation to its own recent performance...
...strategic interests without regard for the rights and wishes of the Lebanese people themselves would be morally reprehensible. Further, it is clear that current U.S. policy is failing even with regard to purely strategic considerations; the Marines hunkered around the Beirut Airport clearly are not capable of effectively com-batting Syrian influence in the region...
Such protests won support gress. Michigan's Democratic Donald Riegle formally proposed, and the full Senate agreed by a vote of 53 to 18, that "restrictions imposed upon the press in Grenada shall cease." At a House com mittee hearing, NBC Commentator John Chancellor said that the censorship was not based on military need but "got into the area of politics...