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Terry Sanford, North Carolina. The 73-year-old former college president has provided a soothing antidote to fellow Senator Jesse Helms, but the state's voters are none too pleased with his liberal voting record and meager legislative achievements...
...problems of Middle East instability. He should continue to press for a regional security system, as well as a solution to the Palestinian question consistent with the principles of self-determination and security for all peoples. We also hope Bush does not take Syrian dictator Hafez El-Assad's meager contributions to the coalition war effort as evidence that this brutal despot can be trusted during peacetime...
...would not cause them to leave the alliance anyway--would certainly be of greater military value than Syria's. Israel's air force has been training for months for specific raids on Iraqi targets and would aid the coalition's cause a good deal more than Syria's meager donation of tanks and ground troops. And Isreal's intelligence-gathering abilities are unparalleled in the Middle East...
...purchase, for $5.12 million (a big price then), of a manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci called the Codex Leicester, which he renamed the Codex Hammer. It consists of 36 pages of notes on water movement. There is not a single drawing of aesthetic interest among the meager diagrams in the margins...
...great as during the 1981-82 recession. And the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. expects 180 banks with total assets of $70 billion to fail this year. The cost of closing them will drain more than half the cash now in the FDIC fund that insures bank deposits, leaving a meager $4 billion on hand, unless something is done to shore up the fund...