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...could not find a publisher in the '60s when London took to swinging. All that changed in 1977, three years before her death, when the Times Literary Supplement ran a feature on neglected writers. Philip Larkin and David Cecil, both authors of mighty clout, independently singled out Pym. Overnight, it seemed, her books were not only available but on the best-seller lists, and she had the kind of loyal following that usually requires years to build...
...turnaround in U.S. policy came after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Overnight, Pakistan was much more essential as a U.S. ally. In 1981 the Reagan Administration offered President Zia a six-year, $3.2 billion military and economic assistance program. The U.S. also agreed to sell 40 advanced F-16 fighter-bombers, which, like most high-performance military aircraft, could carry nuclear weapons. In approving the assistance, Congress attached a rider that the aid would be cut off if Pakistan exploded an atomic device or came into possession of one. That rider expires, along with the aid package, in 1987. Says...
Afterwards a group of 75 camp overnight in front of Massachusetts Hall, which they rename in honor of South African anti-apartheid leader Steven Biko...
...pale visage of the scrawny, bespectacled fellow at the beach who gets sand kicked in his face by a burly bully. When the news first flashed that a wispy-haired man in a windbreaker had shot four teenagers who threatened him on the subway, that 98-lb. weakling became overnight a quixotic urban American hero. Because nothing much was known about him, the 37-year-old electrical engineer became a tabula rasa on which Americans etched their uneasiness and projected their fantasies of retaliation. Goetz was also a media-made man, composed of scraps of headlines and bits of film...
This spring's first applicants began arriving on a snowy Sunday night, prepared to wait overnight to assure themselves a high position on the list...