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...dominant partner. Said one physician who knew the couple well: "My guess is that she did not take a leading role but that Koestler said, 'The time has come.' " U.S. Psychiatrist Herbert Hendin, author of a 1982 study, Suicide in America, points out that in suicide-pact cases he has studied, a common factor is coercion, usually by the man. Says Hendin: "There is a tendency for suicidal people to say that what is a solution for them is a solution for others...
...OPEC countries gathered last week in London's elegant Grosvenor Square at a five-story, red-brick Georgian mansion where the delegate from the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Mani Said al-Oteiba, maintains his residence. The meeting had an urgent mission: agreement on a pricing pact and a set of production quotas that would keep the cost of oil from tumbling uncontrollably. Over the previous weekend Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf neighbors had issued an ultimatum to the rest of OPEC: unless a deal was struck within seven days, the gulf nations said, they would slash their...
...domestic makers lost $3.3 billion in their steelmaking operations, the industry's long-rising wage curve bent downward. The union and the major companies agreed to a new 41-month contract that temporarily cuts Steelworkers' pay by 9% - about $1.25 off the basic hourly wage. The pact gives up other things...
Hand-carried, cheap (average cost: $150) antitank rockets, which are now standard equipment for every infantry squad in the Warsaw Pact armies, rip through the Bradley's aluminum armor like a welder's torch. Unlike steel, the aluminum vaporizes and burns, adding immense heat to the explosion inside and producing a fireball. That is not a theoretical danger. The M113 also is made of aluminum, and M113s carrying Israeli troops went up in flames in Lebanon. During the invasion, Israeli troops rode on the exposed areas of the M113-not inside it. Since the Bradley is designed...
Exactly as reported in the Boston Globe Feb. 19, Walker struck and signed an odd pact with the New Jersey Generals, the U.S.F.L. franchise handiest to Madison Avenue. The deal carried an oral escape clause he exercised the next morning, the same day he told a press assembly, "I didn't sign anything...