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...book begins with her decision to depart with Joyce for England at the age of 20 even though he would not marry her, and reflects back on her early life in the city of Galway in the West of Ireland. Maddox touches upon her early romantic relationships, including two of her early loves who died while she was just a teenager, and her family...
...West Virginia hills cradle families in cozy, isolated hollows. Mining is dangerous, and children worry when their fathers go into the mines. But a different kind of hardship comes when the mines close down; often families split up when breadwinners depart to look for jobs. Children remain behind, wondering if they too will one day have to leave the security of land and family...
...should not bow to the calls of Iranian radicals that it depart from the Gulf with its tail between its legs and leave the two parties to slug it out by themselves just because of this incident. That would only guarantee an Iranian victory while a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war, with victory for neither side, should be the aim of any U.S. policy in the Gulf. If nothing else, the current U.S. presence has restrained and isolated Iran, keeping that fundamentalist regime from achieving the status of a regional superpower...
...would be around to turn out the White House lights at the end of the President's second term. Last week, however, the former Senate majority leader from Tennessee decided to call it quits. The lights are still burning at the White House. But with Baker scheduled to depart on July 1 and evening shadows fast gathering around the Reagan presidency, some in Washington are wondering who will be there to flick the switches next January...
Moreover, the general is still hanging tough. Reagan Administration officials disclosed last week that a State Department representative has been bargaining with Noriega, offering him incentives to leave the country. Under one Administration proposal, the U.S. would drop federal drug-trafficking charges against Noriega if he agreed to depart. But the strongman publicly rebuffed that idea last week, declaring, "Panama's sovereignty is not negotiable...