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Although Reagan, has agreed to stop at the site of Bergen-Belsen in addition to the Bitburg cemetery, nevertheless his staunch refusal to reconsider the Bitburg visit rightfully has provoked dismay about the President's grasp of the gravity of his action. His outrageous remarks last Thursday, in which he called the suffering of the Nazi soldiers comparable to that of murdered victims, shows an astonishing lack of comprehension and sensitivity which is appalling and frightening...
...result, Baldwin was not dismayed by his sense of isolation to the extent that Cleaver was- a dismay which has led to the latter's capitalization. Though he is thousands of miles away, Baldwin still remains in touch with the concerns of Blacks in this country: he has written a book about the Atlanta child murders, tentatively titled Evidence Of Things Not Seen, ready for publication before the end of this year. Surely, even the Cleaver of 1968 would have to be impressed with Baldwin's two decades of loyalty to the cause of Black civil rights...
...anger and frustration had been growing apace with the trade deficit with Japan: $22 billion in 1983, $37 billion last year, more than $40 billion expected this year. As Congress looked on with dismay, U.S. negotiators reported little headway in prying open Japanese markets. Then Japan delivered the coup de grace, announcing a stunning 24% increase in auto exports to the U.S. this year, after the Reagan Administration had removed "voluntary" quotas. That ill-advised move prompted both houses of Congress last week to threaten trade retaliation against America's largest overseas commercial partner...
...great dismay, we discovered that many Yankee fans were present in our bleachers. They went wild when New York managed to score a run in the top of the first, but Boston's two in the bottom half shut them up for a while...
...syndrome is if anything aggravated by the nature of the text: to rhyme or not to rhyme is the crucial question that seems never to have been settled. The effect is unsettling, between intervals of approximately human speech, the characters too often lapse into agonizingly contrived couplets to our dismay we encounter such rhymes as "gluttony/button, he." Nobler no, to notice; "it doesn't always pay to be smart," as one character acutely remarks...