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...very hot. The day begins with a spurt of machine-gun fire and a shriek in the street, followed by a low moaning. One learns that these sounds are normal. Late yesterday afternoon, a car bomb exploded a few blocks from the hotel, killing two, shooting a gray-white pillar of smoke into the sky, which turned black before vanishing. Destruction is everywhere. An apartment house on a corner is cracked in the middle like a bone. It sags and heaves. Fragments of cement and wire hang from the structure at impossible angles. A carton of unopened Pepsis rests...
...press conference to say that the Secretary had been "exonerated" or "cleared" by the six-month investigation. Silverman repeatedly stressed that he could only say there was "insufficient credible evidence," explaining that in some cases the testimony of a single individual "would be sufficient-if your source is a pillar of strength." The persons accusing Donovan of witnessing or making payoffs to labor racketeers were not in that category...
...third pillar of Reaganomics is of regulation, designed to relieve business of "unnecessary" costs. Lekachman, however, reminds his readers of two important facts about government regulation. First, government regulation arose not because of bureaucratic stupidity, but because of public disgust with pollution, unsafe products and hazardous working conditions. Second, the public complained because it was bearing the coats--e.g., in higher doctor bills--for corporate irresponsibility. Deregulation restores to Americans the privilege of paying the costs of the "negative externalities" of modern industry...
...fidelity. In Genesis 19:1-29, two angels of the Lord command Lot, his wife and two daughters to flee the sinful city of Sodom without ever looking back. When Lot's wife cast a fleeting glance backward (her faith was uncertain), she was immediately transformed into a pillar of salt. A Roman religious ritual, however, in which grains of salt were placed on an eight-day-old babe's lips, prefigures the Roman Catholic baptismal ceremony in which a morsel of salt is placed in the mouth of the child to ensure its allegorical purification...
...Leonid Brezhnev, who was celebrating his 75th birthday. Brezhnev will sorely miss such accolades, both ceremonial and substantive. Suslov's death last week from a stroke deprived Brezhnev of his most influential ally in the Soviet Union's ruling collective leadership. Observed one Moscow diplomat: "A pillar has been knocked out from under Brezhnev...