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...seems flattened toward objectivity. Scenery is telescoped: "Aero-scan of birds, all kinds of seabirds, sea, Puget Sound with boat life, wharfs, seals, howling noisy seabirds again, here and there a helicopter." Background music is summoned: "Beethoven comes on with a power symphony and we hear grand strains of German pomposity...
...could feel blood from all my immigrant ancestors flowing through my Swedish-English-German-Scottish veins as I read every word of your stimulating articles. Georgia Bailey Frost Bloomington, Minn...
...like Henry Grunwald, am an immigrant from Vienna. His Essay will be a valuable teaching tool in my high school Spanish and German classes, and I will use it to convey the feelings that I hope will promote better global understanding. Thank you for saying it so well. Eva Frank Kansas City, Kans...
Regan's staff, a mixture of onetime Treasury aides, first-term holdovers and recalled Reaganauts, has acted effectively in crises. It is credited with preventing much long-term damage from the President's visit to the German cemetery at Bitburg, once the decision to go had been made, and managing the White House response to the Beirut hostage taking adroitly. Indeed, some of the Capitol Hill criticism of Regan seems to reflect primarily congressional nostalgia for Baker's assiduous wooing of legislators, which Regan has neither the temperament nor the inclination to duplicate...
...then released after the bus company declined to press hijacking charges. The students soon joined thousands of other Sowetans in an orgy of violence that included the fire bombing of Kunene's house, the looting of stores and an attack on a bus carrying American, British and West German tourists that resulted in one injury. At week's end the rioting had subsided, leaving a death toll of one. But those who remembered the Soweto uprising of 1976, which triggered 16 months of nationwide riots, feared that the troubles might signal more turbulence ahead...