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Anxious to stanch the flow of immigrants, the government of Prime Minister Joop den Uyl has offered the Surinamese what U.S. Consul-General Robert Flanegin calls "the biggest golden handshake any colonialist power has ever conferred on a former colony." Surinam will get $1.7 billion in aid over the next 10 to 15 years. At the same time, independence will mean giving up the right to unlimited immigration to The Netherlands. Last week in languid Paramaribo, one hit song was a mournful ballad called There Is No Room for Surinamese in Holland Any More...
...make political capital out of New York's crisis. It makes no difference that a study by the Congressional Budget Office refutes Ford's assumption that New York has been more profligate than other major cities. In the rest of the country, the city's image as a den of liberals, Jews and blacks makes it easier for Ford to distort the issue and deny New York the time it needs to avoid default. Ironically, Ford's plan may ultimately backfire, when as a result of New York's default even Grand Rapids, Michigan, finds itself in trouble. But that...
...Women and the Men. The women she writes about are maternal, stifled, mistreated. And the men--well, she doesn't deal with men as individuals but as qualities. She likes the poetic reverberations of lions, for example: a "pride" of lions; the lion thrown to slaughter in Daniel's den, Daniel representing men; the lion representing an alternate male predicament. Her men throw fleeting shadows over these poems, usually their last lines, which strain for harmony. Her primary subject is Giovanni, fawningly courting invisible men or haunting strong women who are being broken incessantly down to death. If you counted...
There is a rumor around the center that a couple of years ago, one of Ulam's research assistants found the documents and materials Ulam had used to wtite his first books, roughly 25 years before. At any rate, Ulam's den is heated like a greenhouse, with the windows closed and the director sweating it out in rolled-up sleeves and undone collar...
...like Bastus, a chicken-broad black eat she found starving at some party, and Mirrormere, a mutty bitch of a battered Airedale who had spent her life on one end of a chain and the other end of a two by four, and Daniel. Daniel in the lion's den, as he likes to repeat...