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When one U.N. body has failed to fulfill a crucial mission, the tendency has been to form another outfit. Thus there are four U.N. agencies concerned with food production and seven with industrial development in the Third World. Emergency situations sharply highlight the resulting problems of duplication and overlap. Consider a not-very-hypothetical situation: a sudden flood of refugees. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) might build camps to house them. But WHO would want something to say about their health problems. One or more of the food agencies might consider feeding them...
...Certainly, there is no guarantee that one will ever come out to the light of hope, and there was certainly a long period where I myself felt that I would never see the light again," Chicago comments, her bright auburn hair and colorful outfit contrasting the darkness the project shadowed upon her. "In every country we went to, it was as if there had been a different Holocaust... the scale, the scope, the complexity, the impact of the Holocaust was so beyond anything we had any idea of when we left American soil, it was mindboggling. I think...
...motionless on the ground, the first Viet Cong that I could definitely confirm we had killed in action. He lay on his back, gazing up at us with sightless eyes. The man was slightly built, had coarse, nut-brown features and wore the flimsy black short-legged outfit we called pajamas. My gaze fixed on his feet. He was wearing sandals cut from an old tire, a strip of the sidewall serving as the thong. This was our fearsome unseen enemy. I felt nothing, certainly not sympathy. I had seen too much death and suffering on our side to care...
...Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System declared they were deep in negotiations that could lead to a Time Warner purchase, led by chairman Gerald Levin, of Ted Turner's prize fleet of media properties. If it flies, the deal would again make Time Warner the world's largest media outfit, vaulting over Disney, which has claimed the title for a month after agreeing to buy Capital Cities/ABC for $19 billion...
Driven by the top musical salesmanship of perky Marcy McGuigan, tomboyish Debra Barsha, sassy Jackie Sanders and little-girl-lost Emily Loesser (Frank's daughter), this band echoes Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators, the outfit Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis joined in Some Like It Hot. Appropriately, Charles Busch, the off-Broadway drag star who co-authored Swingtime's mint-thin book (with Linda Thorsen Bond and William Repicci), is now playing Marian...