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...undercover agent. One hunter remarks nervously, "If I were Blaien, I'd get after the guide that got him in trouble." Hearing this, Leach tells them, "Blaien's got his own problems," and notes that this is only part of a big federal bust. Ray Brite, a U.S. deputy marshal, eases the tension by telling awful jokes...
...including troop reductions and a cut in arms production by 19.5%, has rankled the security-preoccupied military. Two weeks ago a bimonthly military newspaper published a broadside blasting "pacifist calls to our countrymen asking irresponsibly for the Soviet Union unilaterally to 'turn swords into plowshares.' " The Kremlin quickly produced Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the former Chief of Staff, to pronounce his support for the cuts...
...idea, "This will be one of the great disasters in New York history. It will be a disaster of historic proportion because it will shape the look of New York for generations. It's not just that it will blot out sunlight, it will blot out values." And, argues Marshal Berman, a political-science professor at the City University of New York, it will substitute the values of "Dallas and Dynasty, people wearing diamonds and furs and being driven around in limos. The vision is of New York as an international center for wealth, where anyone with capital feels...
...feel one should go where one is needed," says Dr. Swee Ang, 40, a physician from Singapore who was working at the Sabra refugee camp for Palestinians in Beirut at the time of the 1982 massacre by Phalangist militiamen. After surviving the ordeal, she returned to Britain to marshal support for the Palestinians before resuming work at Bourj al-Barajneh, another refugee camp in Beirut. "I'd seen how the Palestinians had suffered," she says, "and to abandon them after that and not do something would have been a crime...
...should not replace public policy. It can, however, set standards, set priorities and set an example for the best use of resources. Throwing money at a problem may be just the easiest way to attack it, not the wisest. The more effective forces, it seems, are harder to marshal: vision, tenacity, patience and courage...