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Jaruzelski last week summoned eight West European diplomats to a 1½-hr. meeting at which he defended his martial law decision as the only cure for anarchy. Accusing Solidarity "extremists" of "haughtiness," he cryptically suggested that some of the interned union leaders might be exiled to the West. The general also attacked the U.S. economic sanctions as "interference" in Polish affairs and denied that he had acted on Soviet orders. Even as he spoke, however, foreign ministers of the European Community were meeting in Brussels, where they adopted a strong resolution condemning martial law in Poland and blaming...
...timed their efforts to coincide with the Reagan revolution. Paring federal subsidies and waving his magic wand over the private sector, the new president called upon corporations to fill the gaps his budget cuts would leave. But stop-gap efforts to shore up eroding endowments are not the cure-all the prophets of creative altruism might suppose...
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm. By using the confidences of a pseudonymous psychotherapist, a witty and provocative reporter puts the "talking cure" on the couch, and wisely prescribes further treatment...
...leeches-filthy little devils!" Humphrey Bogart growled in The African Queen. He had just climbed out of a river, covered with the little suckers. Doctors tend to be less squeamish. But even for them leeches have long been associated with archaic medical practices, like bloodletting to cure everything from gout to mental illness. Lately, however, the unlovable little creatures have been having a minor revival. At New York's Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center doctors are using them effectively to help save reattached fingers...
Finally Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor amd director of the University Library, may have found the perfect cure for the didn't-get-what-I-wanted-for-Christmas-blues. Asked what he wanted for Christmas this year, Handlin said, "I gave up being cute years...