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Some observers suspect that Assad has other motives in supporting the fedayeen, who are closely watched and restricted within Syria. The Syrians are also discreetly involved in trying to maintain peace in battered Lebanon (see following story) and they have renewed ties with King Hussein, whom Damascus has denounced at times as an "heir of treason" for his expulsion of the fedayeen from Jordan in the "Black September" of 1970. Jordan, Lebanon and parts of Palestine make up what was known as Greater Syria. Israelis, at least, wonder whether Assad, in his attempts to form an Eastern military front against...
...most common experiments - to lower blood pressure and end migraine headaches - have had mixed results. Biofeedback clearly can affect blood pressure. In one experiment, baboons were trained to maintain a large increase in pressure for 40 days. However, attempts to lower human blood pressure have generally not been significant or lasting outside the laboratory. Despite claims of 80% success, migraine research has been a headache for some biofeedback experimenters because of the placebo effect - a certain number of ailments vanish, not as a result of biofeedback but simply because the patient has faith in the method. Says Miller: "Many...
POOR MISS Lonelyhearts. It's not the most enchanting occupation, this playing Dear Abby to a world of grotesques, trying to find an answer for the frustrated and despairing who package their pain in ungrammatical letters whining for relief. Reporters are supposed to maintain a professional distance from their subject, but the cries of these letter-writers, loud and agonizing, force Miss Lonelyhearts to become immersed in his. Originally a means of advancing his career and increasing his paper's circulation, the column he writes serves finally as a conduit for personal tragedy; awakened to a vain search...
Other wives listed as mavericks by MacPherson maintain separate identities by refusing to follow their men to Washington. Ruth Harkin, wife of an Iowa Democratic Congressman, who announced that Washington wives are just "pawns" for publicity purposes, stayed home in Iowa, where she is Story County prosecuting attorney. Senator Jacob Javits lives in Washington; his wife, Marion, lives in New York and leads the life of a social butterfly...
...striving to maintain the momentum, retailers have one important factor working for them: consumer confidence, as measured by the University of Michigan's quarterly surveys, has rebounded from a 28-year low and is now as high as it was before the recession (see chart page 79). That indicates that the public is swinging back into a buying mood. One reason: about 1.4 million more Americans are working now than six months ago. Their paychecks help swell spending directly, and the rise in employment probably eases the fear of layoff and thus boosts buying confidence among people who held...