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...Reagan Administration's low-key campaign for change has produced disappointingly few results. U.S. proposals for reorganization of the armed forces have come to naught: the idea has been resisted by the tightly knit brotherhood of the Salvadoran armed forces, which exists almost as a society apart from the rest of the country's citizens. Human rights atrocities continue. According to Ambassador Hinton, at least 68 people were killed in the first two weeks of October. U.S. efforts have been further set back by the disappearance of 21 leftists and labor leaders, several of whom attended the meeting...
...close-knit family would probably resist such taunts, forming a united front in the battle against the geists. But when the latest hatred is there, the outside influences play on it. When Sonny, on the suggestion of his incorporeal advisors, shoots his parents and siblings, the moviegoer's rather ghastly reaction is that it was well deserved. Point made. End of film...
...powdered salicylic acid). Oates' heroines quote liberally from the world's worst verse, culled by the author from such works as The Ladies' Wreath, a Magazine Devoted to Literature, Industry and Religion. But what the women in A Bloodsmoor Romance seem to do most is knit, embroider and crochet. So assiduous is one character that she produces an antimacassar "somewhat above the conventional in length, being 1,358 yards, or some three-quarters of a mile .. ."-the perfect symbol for the futility and tedium of Oates' novel. -By Patricia Blake
Bendix's unenviable position results to some degree from the animosity toward Agee in the business community. In the tight-knit world of top management in corporate America, Agee is an unwelcomed outsider. This is due at least partly to his relationship with Mary Cunningham, 31, a former Bendix vice president who resigned in October 1980 in the wake of charges that she was having a romance with Agee. After denying the accusation at the time, the two married last June. That episode still haunts Agee. Says one of Wall Street's most prominent merger makers...
...only way middle-ground approaches will work is if more John Lo Schiavos assert themselves. What was so refreshing about the San Francisco decision was that it came from outside the chummy, clubby atmosphere pervading college sports--beyond the tightly knit coterie of coaches, athletic directors, alumni, and sports writers and broadcasters. The will to roll back the abuses of the system can only come from those above the fray--from college presidents, boards of trustees, and perhaps even from the state legislatures who control the purse strings of the major state schools and their football factories...