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...local construction scandal, rebel party members last month forced the resignation of West Berlin Mayor Dietrich Stobbe. Riot police in Hamburg chased thousands of demonstrators who had been marching in protest against a proposed new nuclear power plant 70 miles away at Brokdorf. The government-backed project was dealt a substantial blow when Hamburg Mayor Hans-Ulrich Klose, a prominent S.P.D. member, threw his support to the antinuke environmentalists...
American fiction in 1978 rang with two strong young voices: John Irving's in The World According to Garp and Mary Gordon's in her first novel, Final Payments. Both books dealt with the unavoidable responsibilities and equally unavoidable satisfactions of family, though the world according to Gordon was quite different from Irving's literary Astrodome. Readers of Final Payments found themselves in a small house in a working-class neighborhood of Queens, Archie Bunker country without one-liners. The heroine, Isabel Moore, had spent all of her 20s caring for her invalid father, a man impacted...
After two and a half years in Chicago, Varney was dealt to the Atlanta Braves, and he spent the next summer in Richmond, playing for Atlanta's top farm club. But despite a .290 batting average. Varney couldn't interest any club in his services the following spring, and he decided to retire...
...Commencement speech last year, Bok talked extensively about race relations. "In June, he dealt with his own perception of the Third World experience," Jackson said yesterday. "In the letter, we want him to say how he feels about our evaluation of the Third World experience...
...intensified animosity toward Iran in the U.S. fed several post-release controversies: Had the Carter Administration dealt too gently with the Iranians in securing the hostages' release? Would?and should ?the new President carry out the terms of the agreement? With the Americans safely out of danger, should Iran now be punished...