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FRANCE Combat Rations Furor over defense cuts
Approval of MX production funds by the House, which is scheduled to begin floor debate on the matter this week, is by no means certain. Almost unnoticed in the furor over the MX was that the Administration made no attempt to restore production funds for the Pershing II missile, which it is scheduled to begin deploying in Europe next year. Addabbo's subcommittee had eliminated those funds last month. After three successive Pershing test failures, congressional sentiment is opposed to full production until the missile's ailments are cured. Even so, the Administration apparently hopes to save...
...freeing of form continued, until Lowell had freed his writing even from the conventions of approach which prohibited the use of personal detail as subject matter. The Dolphin (1973) drew heavily from his breakup with Hardwick and aroused critical furor. Lifelong friends of Lowell's--Elizabeth Bishop included--advised him not to publish the manuscript. He went ahead anyway and wound up pioneering a new poetry; it was confessional, elevated to art and updated by the new approaches to the 20th century...
Even as the junta issued its proposals, an international diplomatic storm continued to swirl over Argentina as a result of the discovery of some 1,500 unidentified bodies in unmarked burial sites across the country. The furor was ignited after an Argentine couple discovered the body of their son, Miguel Angel Sosa, in one of the cemetery plots. Subsequent investigations revealed that the corpses were stacked as many as six deep in unmarked graves, and that numerous victims had been killed with a single bullet in the head. Most of the bodies are still unidentified, but there is little doubt...
...Lorean's arrest caused a furor in Parliament. Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives attacked the Laborites for approving the deal in the first place. The Laborites retorted that De Lorean put people to work and built a sprawling factory where there was only an empty field before. The Conservatives vowed to investigate. There seems to be plenty to dig into. Reports began surfacing, all unconfirmed, that De Lorean had diverted some of the British money into a Swiss bank account or into his own separate businesses. There were even rumors, disbelieved in Belfast, that some of the money...