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...Soviets have spurted upward to challenge the U.S. for the dubious distinction of being the dominant merchant of death. But President Reagan has ended most of the restraints imposed by Jimmy Carter, in the interest of supporting any nation that satisfies his loose definition of a bastion against Communism. No longer are close allies considered the best buyers. The most cultivated customers, both for the Soviets and the Western powers, are developing countries. More than $18.3 billion in major weapons were delivered last year to the Third World? compared with $8 billion in 1975?and contracts were signed...
...Holland, a Central Square merchant, said police told him yesterday they were seeking a car related to the case which was seen in the Harvard Square area. Cambridge police said they had not verified Gilbert's Cambridge connections...
Project Pearl, a name inspired by Matthew 13:45 ("The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls"), had its beginnings in late 1979, when Open Doors was approached secretly by a house church leader, who urgently requested Old and New Testaments. Under the guidance of Open Doors President Anne van der Bijl, 53, staffers began raising money for the mission in the U.S. through dinners, direct mail and TV spots. The aim of the campaign was disclosed, but not the way the mission would be accomplished. Cost of the venture: $6 million, of which...
...better education than most members of the street gang he hangs around with in the riot-scarred Liverpool slum of Toxteth. He has three years' experience as a galley boy on merchant vessels and, most important, a declared willingness to work hard. What Steve McGurty, 21, does not have, and is not likely to get, is a job. The merchant marine will not take him because he fell behind in his union dues. The army turned him down because he was fined $37 for being drunk and disorderly after a New Year's party. An architect...
...opera's plot is a domestic tragedy with universal implications. Katerina is the sexually frustrated wife of a rich provincial merchant, Zinovy, and the object of the thinly disguised passion of Boris, her lecherous father-in-law. Into her life comes Sergei, a handsome young worker. The pair become lovers, but Boris catches them in feverish embrace and publicly whips Sergei. Katerina coldly poisons Boris in revenge, and then she and Sergei compound the crime by strangling Zinovy. When the village drunk later stumbles across Zinovy's body, he alerts the police at the moment when Katerina...