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American diplomats will commute to the new embassy from a five-story annex in East Beirut, where Christian militias maintain a modicum of security. Fifteen Marines will guard both the new embassy and the annex, but they will stay off the street and out of sight. Those precautions are prudent. Just two days before the American Marines left, a furious gun battle broke out between rival Lebanese militiamen in West Beirut. One of the two people killed was a man trying to rescue the wounded...
There is a hint of where the columns come from when Bombeck is persuaded to talk about herself. "My life story?" she says. "Fifteen minutes top. You're looking at shallow. I'm just not that deep. You're looking at a bundle of insecurity. I always think that everything good is going to evaporate and disappear overnight. I am the quietest person at the party. I position myself at the chip dip and don't leave all night. I still have a very ordinary, simple person trapped in this rich, gorgeous, successful body." The joke...
...Fifteen or 20 years ago, everyone was going directly to graduate school because there was nothing else to do," says OCS-OCL Director Martha P. Leape. "But now seniors' options are more flexible and people don't feel locked into the first job they take...
...Fifteen years ago, an aberration in the tradition of serious, alma mater-loving Harvardians, the Class of '69 momentarily seemed to shake the ivy roots of the University. But just as the country swallowed up the 60s generations--leaving a little space for TM meditators and a burnt-out, tie-dyed fringe--Harvard digested the Class of '69, burped perhaps, and moved...
...economy. Some 128 American firms have offices in Peking; this year trade between the U.S. and China will amount to $5.5 billion, a fiftyfold increase since 1972. Ten years ago, almost no Chinese were allowed to go overseas; today there are 10,000 students in the U.S. alone. Fifteen years ago, China kept only one ambassador abroad (in Cairo); today, with representation in 128 countries, China has become one of the world's most diplomatically active nations. Proclaimed Premier Zhao Ziyang during his triumphant tour of the U.S. in January: "China has opened its door and will never close...