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...with, if not coopt, Palestinian rage over events in Lebanon, the King called for the creation of a People's Army, a sort of militia of all Jordanians, both men and women, trained to defend the country. Considering the danger that such an army could turn against its creator, it was a risky proposal...
...slow recovery and the relatively high level of interest rates also mean that it will be a long time before the economy gets much help from new business investment, which is the prime creator of jobs and a major engine of growth. Companies have a lot of idle factories and equipment to put back to work before they can think seriously about any new spending. Moreover, the staggering pile of debts built up during the past few years of inflation, recession and no-growth will need to be decreased before much new borrowing can occur. In the past six years...
...about the need to consult other people before we try to make them live inside our dreams. Sometimes Rohmer's portrait of a woman who speaks her mind all too certainly becomes grating; it is always good to like the person you are laughing at. But her creator's intelligence is, as ever, bracing and pleasure enough to encounter in any circumstances...
...home off Sunset Boulevard is far from his storied American West, Louis L'Amour continues to celebrate the ideals of a fantasy frontierland where law triumphs over disorder and cowpokes don't go in much for either gunplay or foreplay. If they are anything like their creator, how would they have the time? The author of 81 frontier novels (some 125 million copies in print) with a whip-cracking output of nearly three new books a year, L'Amour may have to take at least one day off in the coming year so that he can head...
DIED. Harold (Hal) Foster, 89, creator in 1937 of the richly colored, exquisitely drawn Prince Valiant comic strip (now syndicated in 350 newspapers), which was celebrated for its scholarly research on the medieval period and the King Arthur legend; of a heart attack; in Spring Hill, Fla. "God in his wisdom endowed me with certain imperfections," said Foster, "but I have made Prince Valiant as I wish God had made...