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With the current recession shaping up as a regional rather than a national phenomenon, the real suffering is largely limited to a crescent encompassing the aging industrial cities tied to the auto industry -Pittsburgh, Detroit and Chicago-plus many of the farm states. Farmers are suffering from the ancient miseries of drought and locusts in addition to the more modern plagues of low commodity prices and high interest rates. The situation is particularly grim in the Dakotas and Minnesota, where spring wheat is coming up brown for lack of rain...
Younger recruits burn with zeal to destroy the Zionist enemy, but some of the leaders speak warily about the dubious rewards of a life of making terrorist war. Yasser Arafat's brother Fathi, a doctor who heads the Palestinian Red Crescent (equivalent of the Red Cross), remarks almost whimsically: "I think the world is divided into four classes: first, second, third and Palestinians. All the governments have decided this. Maybe there should be a zoo for us. You know, with a sign reading HERE IS A TERRORIST...
Situated on the edge of the battle-scarred Sabra Refugee Camp in Beirut is the Acre Hospital, one of the 35 hospitals and 100 clinics operated by the P.L.O. Acre is the headquarters of Dr. Fathi Arafat, 48, chairman of the Palestinian Red Crescent Organization and younger brother of Yasser Arafat. Born in the Old City of Jerusalem, Dr. Arafat took charge of the P.L.O.'s medical and social program in 1965. He is especially proud of Acre, a modern facility with intensive-care units as well as rehabilitation centers for commandos injured in action. Unlike other Lebanese hospitals...
...probably in conjunction with the 21 U.S. Navy ships patrolling the Indian Ocean. At the same time, the Carter Administration disclosed that the U.S., in exchange for an undetermined amount of aid, had obtained tentative rights to use air and naval facilities in three countries along the Asian-African "crescent of crisis": Oman, Kenya and Somalia...
...this point, it is worth noting the three basic speech patterns of Greek tragedy. Hecuba embarks on a lamentation that might be called the first language of the Middle East, stretching around the Mediterranean crescent from the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem to the melancholy, snakelike flutes of the Casbah. The second mode is anathema, the curse absolute. The third is the speech of self-absolution. Protagonists in Greek plays never blame themselves for their actions. Either the gods made them do it, or their enemies are culpable or they are the victims of tyche: luck or blind chance...