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...they proliferate, they will make a dent in court caseloads, but they will not end the overloading." What they do promise to cut, he says, is the "hidden costs" of disputes that are left unresolved only to erupt later as cases of violence or property damage...
...little further along on that job than his rivals. His son Jeb, 26, speaks fluent Spanish, and for the past two weeks has made three or four appearances daily, always trying to keep his aptitude a secret until the last possible moment. "Amigos Puertorriqueños ..." he begins. Cheers erupt from the surprised crowds...
...named for the Greek princess who knew her way around a maze, and those false starts tell much about the female condition. Some are searing: a humiliating first love, a horrific illegal abortion, even an infanticide of mythic proportion. Other beginnings-an unfulfilled love affair, a suicide attempt-erupt with a pyrotechnic glare that gradually dims under the author's keen, ironic scrutiny. In this case, the prologue is an end unto itself...
...Shah has been the real loser. While hostages are in jeopardy, the only minidebate that has been allowed to erupt publicly is over who-let-the-Shah-in. When Carter's foreign policy again becomes fair game for partisan attack, it is doubtful that the strengths of the Shah's regime can ever be asserted as full-throatedly as before. Those televised sweeping panoramas of massed Iranians seem to dispute whatever public support the Shah once had. The Shah's secret police may not have tortured so widely or viciously as the Ayatullah's propagandists claim...
Perhaps the most bitterly disputed episode of a bitterly disputed war is the decline and fall of Cambodia. In March, with Prince Sihanouk traveling in France, anti-Vietnamese riots began to erupt across Cambodia. Prime Minister Lon Nol and Deputy Prime Minister Sirik Matak ousted Sihanouk, who there upon took refuge in Peking and turned against the U.S. Kissinger 's critics argue that the U.S. engineered Sihanouk's downfall and later, by attacking the North Vietnamese sanctuaries, caused the war to engulf all of Cambodia and to ensure victory for the Communist Khmer Rouge. Kissinger maintains with much...