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...Administration continued to keep a tight lid on the substance of Habib's negotiations. They are believed to involve a complex set of trade-offs to persuade Syria to remove the three batteries of Soviet-made SA-6 missiles it deployed in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley after Israel shot down two of its helicopters. Moreover, Habib was believed to be trying to devise a broader peace plan to eliminate the bloodletting that periodically tears at Lebanon's own internal politics. One reason he may have decided to interrupt his shuttle was to give Saudi Arabia time...
...Fish is well aware of a lid to athletic achievement that accompanies a school like Harvard. "With tennis especially it is always frustrating. It is conceivable that Harvard could be in the top ten, but beyond that, one must sacrifice being a student--and that's not what it's all about...
...wraiths without motives or accountable pasts, Author Robinson left herself a big problem: how to nudge them through a plot, make them interesting, worthy of attention, when they seem so indifferent about themselves. She solved it with language. Ruth's narrative is as colorful as she is pal lid. For a self-confessed dreamer with a tenuous hold on reality, she shows a keen sense of the here and now, and of the right words to record it. She notices "a big green couch so weighty and shapeless that it looked as if it had been hoisted...
...Encourage pluralistic media coverage. Conditions in El Salvador and our official posture have not encouraged adequate media coverage. Influential US journalists have been banned from the country by threats on their lives. Salvadorean government restrictions on visiting reporters have kept a tight lid on many critical events in the past six months. Informal signals to foreign desk editors during the electoral campaign discouraged their interest in the region...
...other top officials as a symbolic blow against inflation-and a survival tactic with their constituents. Since 1976 Congress has suspended or reduced automatic cost of living hikes for top officials. Salary increases for top federal jobholders are linked to those for Congress; thus, if Congress holds the lid on itself, no one else gets a raise. The main argument against pay increases, say their opponents, is that federal workers earning $50,000 to $60,000 a year are better able to cope with inflation than the typical U.S. family of four, whose median income is about...