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...Voice at the Back Door) and about Americans in Italy (The Light in the Piazza). She seems to have conceived The Salt Line as her Tempest, with Arnie as an eccentric but passionate Prospero. She portrays him in clear Southern light that shines with a "persistent, steady, invisible fallout of blessing." She invests him with a slightly seedy spirituality by surrounding him with motley religious remnants: an 18-ft.-high statue of the Buddha (flotsam from the hurricane) that he has stashed in his yard; a nuns' shrine to St. Francis that he tends on his island; an occult...
...globe (Ferdinand Macros of the Philippines, Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea, etc.) to suit our own geopolitical and strategic interests. By ferreting out known Bishop supporters, the U.S. government is preventing the leaders of a major political faction from participating in the democratic forum. Without the international fallout of heavy-handed paternalism, this weeding-out process subtly changes Grenada's political composition--skewing the election results months in advance...
...back trouble. He backstroked powerfully down the pool, rolled and executed a strong crawl. As he splashed and stretched in the warm water, he talked between gurgles about Berlin. He was going to order a partial call-up of the National Guard, increase the draft, seek money for home fallout shelters. He seemed to gain personal strength as he talked of power and how to exercise it. Before he hobbled off to his bedroom on crutches, which he used when he removed his back brace, he was resolutely beckoning his nation from some far horizon to fall in behind...
Congressional reaction to the invasion hewed to party lines at first, indicating that it may have been too early to assess the true political fallout. "This was a proper use of our power," argued House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois. "It is in our hemisphere. We are beginning to draw some lines here. How much of it do you take before you say, 'This is enough'?" Trent Lott of Mississippi agreed: "We don't want another pro-Castro Marxist government down there." Senate Democrats were far harsher. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts called the invasion "Reagan...
...added that a nuclear war would result in radioactive fallout, possibly reaching lethal doses for human beings, and poisonous toxins being released into the air from burning cities. Medical facilities would be unavailable to deal with these crises, he said adding. "The extinction of Homo Sapiens cannot be excluded...