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...bodies through the streets Near by was the head, shoulder and arm of a person who had been blown apart. Sirens screaming, the cars of Gemayel's Lebanese Forces began screeching to a halt in front of the building. Suddenly a Phalangist official struck himself on the face in dismay and frustration and shouted: "Bashir is inside...
...think there is any major complaint about our service," says Dr. Warren E C. Wacker, director of UHS Wacker says he believes the statistics in the complaint, though correct in themselves, constitute a "statistical aberration" because they refer only to a five-month period: in addition, he expresses dismay that the figures were apparently copied out of a BWH delivery log, in violation of patients' confidentiality rights...
...Jewish history? So goes the question, still reaching toward yesterday. Yet the answer lies in the present, in what Israel is right now. For all the turmoil it suffers, the country remains a miracle. Read some 19th century accounts of Palestine by travelers like Mark Twain and note their dismay at the dreariness around them. Then look at the Hula Valley in the north, with its plums and avocados springing from a former swamp; or at the universities and concert halls; or, abstractly, at the only working democracy in the region. The cause for outrage at Israel's undemocratic...
Whether Reagan and Congress can summon the will to make such supremely difficult choices is problematic. Reagan has rebuffed all suggestions for slower defense spending increases, to the dismay of some in his own Administration. In an inter view with the Associated Press that was released as his resignation be came effective last week, Murray Weidenbaum, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, charged that increases in military spending have fully offset all Reagan's cuts in civilian programs. Said Weidenbaum: "On balance, we really haven't cut the budget. When you add that [defense spending...
...dismay of the authorities, many Soviet young people have turned away from the stuffy ideal of the committed Young Communist Leaguer that was fostered by their elders. Now two generations beyond the terror-filled Stalin era and the suffering of World War II, the young are bent on having fun in all the ways taught by Western movies, visitors and foreign radio broadcasts. In and around Moscow last week, youngsters were boardsailing, skateboarding and hang gliding; practicing yoga, karate, kung fu and fad diets; exchanging Bruce Lee posters; disco dancing; listening to tapes of Diana Ross and ABBA; and going...