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...declared his intention to "litigate it to the eyeballs," announced that the Justice Department had reached an out-of-court settlement with A T & T. That ended the Government's seven-year antitrust pursuit of the world's largest corporation (1980 revenues: $51.7 billion). Under the agreement, Ma Bell-as the giant communications company is popularly known-will divest nearly two-thirds of its total assets by spinning off 22 local operating companies. But at the same time, it will retain its long-distance services and be able to enter new fields of data processing and telecommunications...
...Ma'alot in 1974, three Arab terrorists attacked a school and held 88 children hostage, 23 of whom were killed when the building was stormed. In Qiryat Shemona that same year, terrorists made an assault on an apartment house; eight children died in the fighting. There have been dozens of such incidents in recent years?sudden death visited upon an otherwise tranquil area. Black goats feed on scrub. Trees crop up in spurts. Cows graze in fields stained brown where the rockets have seared them...
...That's how we used to dance in our time, ma cher," said the count...
...role expected of the avantgarde. Today Morandi's renunciation of the art world as a system seems noble, exemplary and perhaps inimitable. He disdained all ambitions that could not be internalized, as pictorial language, within his art. This earned him the reputation in some quarters of a petit maítre: a man who, though he said it very well had only one limited thing...
...rock doesn't satisfy Ma, Pa, and Gramps, there are other fine paperbacks. The People's Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau (who else?) is another oversized collection of past cartoons; these excerpts from 1978-80 are particularly interesting because they are accompanied by previously muted comments from the satirist. Poland: Solidarity: Walesa is a well-written study of Poland during recent years, including a discussion of the current strife. A host of photographs accompanies the authoritative writing of three veteran journalists...