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...after such consultation, the Palestinians refuse to run for office in the West Bank and Gaza, the "autonomy" road will have turned into a dead end. The U.S., in order to heal its rift with the Arabs other than Egypt--a rift that may have serious effects on the price and quantities of Saudi oil--will have to find a new way, and return to the idea of a comprehensive settlement. If, on the contrary, the West Bank Palestinians, while denouncing the autonomy scheme as insufficient, decide, in agreement with the PLO and Jordan, to run for office...
Ford's Kiwanis-style banality pervades his autobiography, A Time to Heal, one of the most relentlessly worthless volumes of this, or any other, year. Ford didn't actually write it--a Washington journalist named Trevor Armbrister transcribed taped conversations with Ford and edited them. For his complicitly, Armbrister got raked over the coals when the cash came rolling in: Jerry gave him a taste of Republican austerity. Armbrister deserved it. He captured the full vapidity of Ford's colloquial style--an historical achievement, but a narrative catastrophe. Ford's boring, flat, humorless prose drones on endlessly, like the Great...
...Nixon and the Mayaguez debacle, his acts of mercy and macho, his twin disaster--there is nothing new here. He explains the problems of inflation and the budget and energy, and excuses his lack of imaginative leadership in confronting these problems by calling his Presidency "a time to heal," borrowing from Ecclesiastes. If it actually were a time to heal, that healing called for active therapy, not indolence: Ford led a reign of atrophy. "A time to heal" cannot explain away the nonpareil frivolity of the WIN button (which Ford still defends as a "good idea"); in line with...
...testing the substance in living creatures, including man. Still, the scientists hope that within two years vats of genetically redesigned E. coli will be acting as minifactories, churning out sufficient somatotropin to treat dwarfism. There may also be enough to test a long held suspicion: that HGH can help heal burns, wounds, bone fractures and even bleeding ulcers...
...Third Reich? Each of these three books seeks answers, and in sum they are heartening. Fritz Molden, himself a fighter in the Austrian resistance, puts it best in Exploding Star: "Where there are people who disrupt, destroy and torture there are also, beyond all doubt, others who help, heal and support...