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...decade later, it still remains-an ugly, 25-mile scar across the face of Berlin. But the Wall stanched the drain of talented people, enabling him to stabilize and develop East Germany into the world's ninth largest industrial power, with a gross national income of $29.5 billion. That, in turn, gave Ulbricht great leverage within the East bloc. He shared none of the Soviet desire for technological help from the West; he has access to West German aid anyhow through various trade arrangements. Ulbricht's consuming fear was that closer ties with the West could undermine Communist...
WATCHING Ulster's troubles is like watching a whole country slide down the drain before your eyes," said a despairing official of Northern Ireland's beleaguered government. "It's like sitting on a powder keg. Things are out of control and we're helpless to do anything." Last week a new man was perched atop the powder keg. Former Minister of Development Brian Faulkner, 50, was named to replace James Chichester-Clark as the sixth Prime Minister in Ulster's 50-year history-and the third in the past 23 stormy months. He could also...
Married couples are as free as fencers. In the thrust and parry, each partner pinks the other, helping to drain away the anger and frustration that might otherwise fester within and poison the self. But the divorced person shadowboxes with a vivid phantom, the past. He or she is bound to an enemy that cannot be hit or flattened-memory. For the divorced, recollection is impacted pain. Regrets, bitterness, envy, hate stalk the mind...
...looks as if it will drag on. Consumers interpret the news of the Laos invasion as a sign that the war will continue to drain the budget, fuel inflation and contribute in general to a rocky economy...
...vice president, Kyes, as No. 2 man. Tough-minded, outspoken, sardonically known as "Jolly Roger" because of his piratical ruthlessness, Kyes characterized the nation's military establishment as an organization plagued by "unrealistic requirements, poor planning and inefficient execution . . . waste of money, poor utilization of manpower, unnecessary drain of materials from the civilian economy, and the inefficient use of tools, equipment and facilities." Kyes ordered severe slashes in the defense budget, returned to G.M. the next year with the Medal of Freedom, the Government's highest peacetime civilian award...