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...York Tel's costs are due to the divestiture, and it is unfair to try to stick consumers with the costs. We did not ask for the breakup." Says Sylvia Siegel, the director of the San Francisco-based group TURN (Toward Utility Rate Normalization): "It's a mess. In fact, it's a holy mess. The telephone companies are using divestiture as an excuse to get all the price increases they ever wanted...
Perhaps the most important message to take away from this whole mess is a sense of warning. In Nicaragua, it is reported, citizens wait on our election year with baited breath. Professors who spend Sundays at war and the rest of the week with their work preface their books with notes about who will win, while television stars plan their careers around whether or not their show's political content will survive a Reagan election. In the tiny town of San Juan Del Norte, one of the few the Reagan CIA contras hold, a guard now stops journalists from entering...
...thoughts from a non-hysterical observer of the Pi Eta mess...
...inverted bowl; everywhere, that is, but along the terribly littered bank. Atencio gave the trash a tearless but disgusted eye. Tourists had not been responsible for the beer cans, the dead radios, the broken whisky bottles and the rump-sprung chairs. The Indian knew that. Standing there by the mess, gray hair pulled back into a ponytail, he recalled a cleaner season. His youth had preceded plumbing, he said, and in those days, in winter, the only way a boy could prove to his mother that he had truly bathed was to sprint home from the Rio Grande while...
...grocery store's door in West Beirut a day after a bomb blast had blown out its windows and reduced much of its merchandise to rubble. Picking his way through cans of peas coated with the contents of broken catsup bottles, the shopkeeper shrugged stoically at the mess...