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...that a quick M.P.L.A. victory might be preferable to a prolonged conflict, even were it to end in a coalition government. As one senior British official puts it: "The longer the war goes on, the greater the price in Soviet bases, etc., that the Russians will be able to extract from the M.P.L.A." For this reason, British policy advisers were privately critical of Kissinger's renewed condemnation of the M.P.L.A. last week. They fear that a cool U.S. posture could play into the hands of radical, Soviet-lining elements in the Luanda government...
...essential message of Doonesbury may be that inside even the most formidable public figures and the most vituperative public debates there are hard kernels of decency-and lunacy. They may not be immediately visible, but somehow Trudeau can extract the ludicrous truth and imprison it in his daily cages. Of what earthly benefit is such talent? For one thing, it may prevent Americans from taking their prejudices too seriously, as they have in the less laudable moments of recent history. Trudeau's rather formal answer: "To let the small meannesses and foolishnesses of life face each other in distortion...
...been a headache for some biofeedback experimenters because of the placebo effect - a certain number of ailments vanish, not as a result of biofeedback but simply because the patient has faith in the method. Says Miller: "Many of these headaches would have disappeared if the patients were treated with extract of watermelon...
...even a woman whose whole life the reporter hopes to track down in 400 pages. Just five days!--from February 20 to February 24, 1974--just five days is all he wants to know about the life of Katharina Blum. Yet even this knowledge is impossible to extract, despite detailed police records and the personal testimony of the woman involved, a woman who, at the end of that five day period, killed...
...week the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 805, down 21 points for the week. Bond prices also dipped on news of the July rise in living costs, and interest rates continued to creep upward-a sign that lenders, too, expect inflation to remain rampant and are determined to extract a higher price for their money...