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Last week was generous to the convalescing President. There was no festering political problem, no diplomatic crisis-although Reagan did draft a message to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev warning him against an invasion of Poland. Even if Reagan had not lain wounded, his official obligations would have been slight. One of those chores was rich with irony-Reagan formally proclaimed next Sunday the beginning of Victims' Rights Week. Said the country's most prominent criminal prey: "Only victims truly know the trauma crime can produce...
...Pudding's graduate board, said yesterday he sent a letter to alumni asking for contributions to help pay the taxes, and added that the believes the club will be able to hold on to the building. "We have about 10,000 alumni and they've always been very generous in the past," he said...
...Michelle, Marie Tifo is generous in body and spirit, a woman who likes to laugh and doesn't mind being laughed at. She takes what she needs and gives what she can, and expects no favors from anyone. She earns enough to pay for the roof over the heads of her brother and daughter, and to keep Guy in beer, but if she couldn't she wouldn't despair. She prefers to come up smiling (and what a wonderful smile she has); she guards no impenetrable depths; she revels in basic pleasures. Michelle seems unhappy only when faced with...
City officials defend the plant site as the only one that met all of GM's specifications and contend that they are doing everything possible to ease the plight of Poletowners. Besides offering owners a "fair price" for their properties, the city claims it is paying out generous benefits (up to $15,000 for home owners and $4,000 for renters) to help defray resettlement costs. According to Emmett Moten, Detroit's industrial development director, the city is also purchasing federally owned housing units for Poletowners and offering them mortgages at a bargain 9.5% interest. Detroit hired...
...tenacious 2,500 people still at Yamit have all been offered generous Israeli government compensation for leaving, and most have accepted. But some are still obdurate. Students at the town's yeshiva have hinted that they may barricade themselves inside their dormitory when the deadline comes. Says Tsuriel Biblil, 24: "I won't kill any soldiers, but I won't let anyone take me from here...