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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Griffin, who wrote the section on cold-weather fashions, wage their battles to keep warm in New York City apartments. "Undershirts are the answer," advises Griffin. Medina has found a radical solution to the high cost of fuel. Says she: "We don't use the stuff." For the past six winters, Medina and her husband have made do with the 60° to 65° provided by a fireplace, southern exposed windows, weather stripping and heat from surrounding apartments. Says she: "We discovered the layered look in clothing long before it was in fashion, but we're healthy...
...Front-Line Casualty In your story about embattled diplomats [Nov. 26] you mention that "in the past eleven years, four American ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty." Actually, there have been five, since you omitted my old friend and Foreign Service colleague, Frank Meloy, Ambassador to Lebanon, who was killed in Beirut on June...
Your article on teaching children about death [Dec. 3] brought back some memories of a class I recently had in high school. We visited graveyards and funeral homes. We also wrote our feelings about death. At the time we thought it trivial and a bit morbid. But this past summer a classmate died. Through our understanding of death we were able to cope and somehow adjust to the fact that we would never see our friend again...
...near the Persian Gulf, the Baluchis and the Turkomans to the east. Last week there even came a brief incursion by the Iraqis across their disputed frontier. The Kurds are most likely to cause trouble next. These flinty, well-armed peasants, isolated in their mountain hideaways, have in the past fought more fiercely for independence than Iran's other dissident minorities, and a cease-fire agreement that they signed last month with the Khomeini government just expired...
Jimmy Carter, who only a few months ago was acting the Gulliver bound by the Lilliputians from Congress, has in the past few weeks impressed the world with a few nods, a spoken O.K. or two and some marginal notes scribbled on his option papers. Suddenly the pitiful giant is up and around...