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...send a peace-keeping force of U.S. Marines to Lebanon. The arrival of the Marines is sure to cause a new dilemma, and the action will provoke the Soviets. Meanwhile the P.L.O. will sit back and watch. The Israelis are capable, and they are the masters of this war. Let them be in charge...
Broadcaster Watts is one of the few islanders to discuss the dilemma openly. "British ships and the British military presence is something we have always wanted here. Now we must decide whether we can carry on our lives underneath all this British pressure or whether we revert to the way of life we had before, with the same dangers. It's no good saying we can forget about the Argentines. We can't. The military have taken over our airport. We are going to have to learn where this leaves us and where this is going to take...
...about confessing to the disease. Says Fran Simon, a p.r. woman for a Philadelphia hospital: "I sure as hell wouldn't want it on my conscience, passing the disease on to somebody." But a quick admission amounts to a warning bell that scares off potential mates. "It was a dilemma every time I met someone new," says a Miami architect. "I used to rehearse telling people before a mirror." The architect is now happily married, though he has passed the disease on to his wife. A woman in Washington hid her herpes from her boyfriend for three years...
Metropolitan Police Assistant Com missioner John Bellow last week faced the delicate task of determining where security had failed and where improve ments could be made. Dellow's dilemma: the royal family dislikes security precautions so much and is so well regarded that measures for its safekeeping have become too lax. Ronald Reagan, by contrast, is so well guarded that his protection became a major irritant between U.S. and British security officials last month when the President stayed at Windsor Castle. Still, the Queen may need more security than she thinks. Only 13 months before her un scheduled bedside...
Even better is Kumagai Jinya (Kuma-gai's Camp), a work of epic sweep. Set during the wars of the 12th century, it relates the terrible dilemma of General Kumagai, who must kill his own son to spare the life of an enemy whose mother had helped him long ago. Playing the general, Kanzaburo is a figure of universal, tragic stature who is shattered by his act. An accomplished, versatile actor, Kanzaburo also displays a sly comedic sense as the errant husband in Migawari-zazen...