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...news of Yamani's ouster, spreading instantly through government offices, trading floors and boardrooms around the world, set off a kind of mini-panic. Markets careened as speculators struggled to grasp what the departure meant. Spot oil prices first dropped more than a $1.10 per bbl. in New York City and then climbed nearly $2 to about $15.25 by week's end. Prices seesawed in London and Rotterdam. In Washington, a bewildered Reagan Administration official said the firing "caught us all by surprise...
Totalitarianism remains unique, and uniquely evil, in its ambition: total control. But, as often as not, its reach exceeds its grasp. And this calls into question another of its attributes: irreversibility...
That essential feel for the trauma, the tragedy, the aloneness of the Jews in that dark period is simply missing from the Arabs' sense of history and from their grasp of the present...They cannot understand the fierce sensations of vulnerability, the lusty devotion to military strength, the stubborn resistance to international criticism, the waves of guilt that soften the core of the hardness. They cannot comprehend the gnawing fear of powerlessness that grinds beneath the arsenal of tanks and planes, the lurking conviction that it could happen again, and that again the world would look the other...
...were following the proceedings. To see President Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev so warm and cordial with one another at lunch, and so dejected and grim-faced only a few hours later, reflected their, as well as our, sorrow at what almost had been in our grasp...
...that all in attendance want desperately to believe in. When the band launches into a moony ballad, folks in their 40s hit the floor to dance slow and close. And as a Mylar balloon sails toward the rafters, one aging yuppie reaches for the string, but it eludes his grasp. The reflexes of youth are gone, but the impulse is as strong as ever...