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...President, looking relieved that the painful moment had passed, applauded. He did not respond to Wiesel's plea not to lay a wreath at Bitburg. Moments before, Reagan had eloquently expressed his view that Americans have pledged more than "Never again"; they have also pledged "Never forget." Yet in indirect reference to the cemetery visit that has embroiled his presidency in its most emotional controversy, he also declared, "There is a spirit of reconciliation between the peoples of the Allied nations and the people of Germany and between the soldiers who fought each other on the battlefields of Europe. That...
...long had one of the Government's most sophisticated computer systems; its first machine was installed in 1961. But like companies that buy their first computers and then decide they can forget about data-processing problems forever, the IRS before long found itself with old and outdated equipment. A plan to upgrade its machines was defeated in Congress during the 1970s, when the agency fell prey to suspicions generated by Watergate. Legislators feared that some day an Administration might use a centralized computer tax system to harass citizens. In January 1980 the IRS at last issued a call for bids...
...Viet Nam vet who takes issue with the fad of Rambomania. It glorifies all I have been trying to forget for the past 15 years. The destruction of an ancient culture and its people has been a haunting memory for me, and I see no need to depict it in a motion picture. Chip Troiano East Hardwick, Vt. Good Morning Today...
...flashes, shortness of breath, back pain, leg pain, groin pain and a whole raft of digestive disorders. What they don't warn you about is the extreme paranoia that sets in about the potential threat to your fetus from everything you eat, drink, breathe, wear or even think about. Forget alcohol, cigarettes and Valium. When a woman is on the nest, the inadvertent ingestion of cheese, fish, undercooked meat or unfiltered tap water is enough to provoke a shrieking phone call to the poison-control hotline...
...you’re in need of some mindless action-adventure fun, Sahara will do. So relax—buy yourself a big bucket of popcorn, sit back in your mohair-covered theater seat, marvel at all the shiny, expensive speedboats blowing up, and forget all about that six page response paper due Monday...