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During a brief lull in the shooting, our driver threw the Jeep into reverse and backed in drunken swerves 100 yards away from the heaviest fighting. We scrambled out into a shallow roadside ditch filled with weeds and dried cow manure and spent the next hour in intimate contact with the ground. The fighting finally died down and the contras retreated, leaving eleven dead. Four of the seven Jeeps in the convoy had suffered casualties, the three in front of us and the one immediately behind...
Because the American steel industry has been shielded from competition, companies that buy its product pay artificially high prices. That is one reason, economists point out, for the auto industry's troubles, since it is one of the heaviest steel users. Says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics in Washington: "In the long run, jobs saved by protection of one industry tend to be offset by the loss of jobs in other industries." In the short run, protectionism is a big contributor to inflation...
...helicopter gunships and fighter-bombers had pounded Charikar, the capital of Parwan province, and villages in the nearby Kheyr Khaneh Pass, sending thousands of refugees into the capital city of Kabul. Those who were able to flee across the border into Pakistan called last week's attacks the heaviest since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. After the attacks, Soviet helicopters dropped leaflets saying "Peace...
...heaviest symbolism, however, is Freudian, understandable in an opera about a sacred fraternity of chaste knights who guard the Holy Grail against a lustful, profane world. Syberberg revels in the obvious sexual metaphors of the spear and the wound that will not heal; the wound, which is supposed to be in Amfortas' side, is a disembodied thing that lies ulcerating on a bed next to the suffering knight. Most startling of all is the changing of Parsifal from a man (Michael Kutter) into a woman (Karen Krick) at the moment he rejects the erotic advances of the temptress Kundry...
...bulldozers clear away rubble, and convoys of trucks cart off debris. Shell craters have been filled, sidewalks repaired. The result: West Beirut is cleaner than at any time since the beginning of the civil war in 1975. The Corniche Mazraa, site of some of the war's heaviest shelling and once littered with broken masonry, is well groomed, and the four-lane high way to the airport has been repaved...