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...such grave times, it is surely worth it for Reagan and Chernenko to meet "just to get acquainted." They will inevitably gain some confidence that one of them is not so maniacal as to launch a surprise attack. If and when the missiles fly, the overwhelming chances are that it will be in response to some mistaken warning or miscalculation. As we are taking our last breath, each President will probably be thinking the other started...
Honduras maintains, in addition, grave reservations about the uninvited friends its guest has brought along. The Tennessee-size nation of 4 million has during the past year been crowded with soldiers from three foreign countries. Apart from U.S. troops, Honduras has provided a home for thousands of contras, whose hit-and-run operations along its borders have served only to inflame the threat of Nicaraguan retaliation. At the U.S.-run training camp in Trujillo, meanwhile, the Americans have been graduating twice as many soldiers from neighboring El Salvador as they have Hondurans, in an effort to bolster that country...
...under certain circumstances and grave events, organized to defend our brothers." Paul Eidelberg, a professor at Bar-Ilan University outside Tel Aviv, argues that there is a difference between Israeli and Arab terrorism: "Arab violence against Jews is ultimately against the very existence of the Jewish state. In contrast, when Jews resort to violence against Arabs, they are not denying Israel's right to exist as a sovereign state." That sentiment reaches right into the government. Science and Technology Minister Yuval Ne'eman said in May that while he condemned "blind terror," the assaults on the mayors had "positive results...
...phenomenon outside the realm of all historical experience. To American workers and businessmen, it is a malignant force that destroys jobs and profits. To Government policymakers, it is a vexing dilemma that stirs impassioned pleas for protectionism. Gargantuan and still growing, the U.S. trade deficit has raised grave fears about the future health and wealth of the American economy...
...Terror, this novel will horrify only those who believe that the gruesome should not also be funny. The macabre begins when Bob Glandier, a repulsively fat and wicked Twin Cities businessman, follows his runaway wife to the Lady Luck Motel in Las Vegas and murders her. In her grave back home in Minnesota, Giselle feels her spirit stir and realizes that she, like the heroine of the ballet Giselle, is destined to haunt her husband. Unfortunately, the escape from her moldering mortal remains requires the simultaneous death of her mother, who wakes up in "a kind of halfway house...