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Witness Jack's seemingly innocent chore of taking out the Gladney garbage: Was this ours? Did it belong to us? I took the bag out to the garage and emptied it. The compressed bulk sat there like an ironic modern sculpture, massive, squat, mocking ... I picked through it item by item, mass by shapeless mass, wondering why I felt guilty, a violator of privacy, uncovering intimate and perhaps shameful secrets. Why did I feel like a household spy? Is garbage so private? Does it glow at the core with personal heat, with signs of one's deepest nature, clues...
...forcing Petty and Roger to launch a fundraising drive for their tanks and aircraft. They ask Prince Charles to appear at a teatime piano concert featuring one of their neighbors: he politely declines. They plan a "Bring-and-Buy" sale and ask Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to contribute an item. But they receive no help in those quarters, and their dund-raising drive falls short...
...Talks will also continue at the technical level. But the next top- level trade event will be the seven-nation economic summit in Bonn beginning May 2, when Reagan will confer with the leaders of the major industrial democracies, including Nakasone. The President plans to make trade the main item on the agenda, calling for a new round of negotiations under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Several lawmakers voted in favor of last week's House and Senate measures with the hope that Reagan, even though he did not support them, will be able...
...unidentified person took a brown leather shoulderbag from a Littauer Center office between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Monday. The total value of the item is estimated to be $25. There are no suspects...
...aggressive Persian Gulf policy on Jan. 23, 1980, by the next morning the New York Times had dubbed it "the Carter Doctrine." President Reagan saw fit to bury his doctrine in his 1985 State of the Union address beneath the balanced budget amendment, school prayer and the line-item veto. That he decided to make his a footnote is as much a tribute to Mr. Reagan's prudence as to his modesty. Truly new ideas--what Democrats lie awake at night dreaming of--are as risky as they are rare. This one has already precipitated a storm...