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...maiming and bloodletting on the current political scene [NATION, Sept. 17] can only weaken the vital processes by which we govern ourselves. How can the candidates ever recover from the personal and public injury they heap upon each other? If we are to survive as a great republic, we must have the best, not the beastliest, from everyone...
Meanwhile, rescue workers were sifting through the embassy wreckage. The blast had left a crater 26 ft. in diameter and 8 ft. deep. Beside it lay the remains of the lethal van, in a burned and twisted heap. Ambulances wailed as armed guards lowered their weapons menacingly to keep curiosity seekers away. Bodies were scattered amid the rubble, some without limbs; screams and groans could be heard everywhere. Among the wounded was Fawzi Yazeji, a Lebanese guard, who was taken to the nearby Abu Jawdeh hospital for treatment. Said he: "Thank God this didn't happen two hours earlier...
...government. It wants the world to know that politics has no place in municipal services here. Sewers and garbage are attended to with dispatch. Potholes-called chuckholes in Dallas-are supposedly filled within three hours. Dallas is a clean family town. In preparation for the convention, a "Haul a Heap" crusade towed away 4,418 abandoned cars...
...White House last week said that the costlier House version would be "unacceptable." While differences on the bill could be worked out in a congressional conference committee, its chances of being passed again by the House are slim. Said Simpson: "If we toss this one on the trash heap, no politician is going to stick his tootsies in the fire on this baby for another ten or 20 years...
Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to power. There were no signs during Genscher's visit that Iran's fanatical Shi'ite Muslim leaders had changed their opinion of the U.S. "devil," but West German officials found them less prone to heap verbal abuse on the West. When Genscher expressed concern about the fighting in the gulf, the Iranians said they were also eager to prevent the war from widening...