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...Girls. In the first, five women till the harsh swampland of Norfolk; in the second, a Thatcheresque career woman chats with her peers from throughout history. In both, British Feminist Caryl Churchill displays acerbic ironies and dazzling technique...
Normally, wars are not won by dying for one's country. They are won by making the enemy die for his. Unfortunately, holy wars are not waged under this harsh but rational precept. Today many religious zealots seem almost eager to die for their cause in suicidal truck bombings and other terroristic attacks. President Reagan said two weeks ago that there were as many as 1,000 kamikaze terrorists being trained in Iran alone. Such individual fanaticism has now been coupled with something new: the technical resources and diplomatic protections of governments like Iran's and Syria...
TIME'S readers [Nov. 2] criticized you for publishing the picture of the dead helicopter pilot on the Grenada beach. War is not pretty. This photograph showed the harsh realities of the invasion...
...Soviet Union was predictably harsh in its criticism of the U.S. action. Declared Leonid Zamyatin, the Kremlin's chief spokesman: "We condemn this act of aggression. We condemn the actions of the U.S. and Israel, and will give support and aid to those who are countering aggression in that region." But his comments stopped well short of specific threats. The assumption was that unless the U.S. attacked Syria itself, the Soviets would not risk a military response...
...Houston district attorney's office. Texas is one of several states that have imposed tough, additional sentences on any defendant found guilty of intimidation. The American Bar Association's model statute on the subject, adopted in whole or in part by Congress and five states, recommends such harsh penalties, as well as broad judicial power for police to protect witnesses who the court perceives are in danger...