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Fistfights broke out when soldiers began to evacuate 250 members of the ultranationalist Gush Emunim movement from their camp by carrying them down the steep rocky slopes. Israeli radio reported at least fourteen injuries occurred in the raid...
...Congress and the press. Several news articles and television documentaries have alerted other vets and some Congressmen. The heat is on the V.A. This April, the House Committee on Veterans Affairs viewed a television documentary produced in Chicago, where local veterans are particularly well-informed about Agent Orange. Fourteen Congressmen were sufficiently shocked to demand a report from the V.A. and the General Accounting Office. The Committee tentatively plans to hold hearings on Agent Orange this fall, but the V.A. still refuses even to hear the complaints of affected veterans...
...Dungeness crabs are moving smartly from Pacific to pots in San Francisco, Trillin is not just happy, he is beatific. He is also remarkably free of guilt. Reminded by his wife Alice that he weighed 180 lbs. at his last checkup, Trillin instantly reduces that figure: "I always allow fourteen pounds for clothes...
...meticulous researcher, marshals all the necessary facts with fairness and perception. Unfortunately, he plods heavily, sometimes grotesquely, through his material. "Korea," he writes in one instance, "hangs like a lumpy phallus between the sprawling thighs of Manchuria and the Sea of Japan." Yet American Caesar succeeds despite such lapses. Fourteen years after his death, MacArthur still provides an inexhaustible story of a hero and those who worshiped and reviled...
...long history of satirical tomfoolery and nonsensicality on the stage, two bodies of work constitute equal peaks: the eleven extant comedies of Aristophanes and the fourteen collaborative operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan...