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...increases. This year, although even more worried about the deficit, they kept their counsel. Said one top aide of his boss: "We found he is adamant on the question of defense and taxes. So why beat a dead horse?" Indeed, at a Friday afternoon Cabinet meeting, Reagan made it plain that he is willing to tolerate huge deficits...
Having scored that victory, the Iranians went no farther. Nor are they likely to. The reason: the broad, flat plain between the border and Amara is a maze of earthen walls and slit trenches. Hundreds upon hundreds of Soviet-built Iraqi tanks, armored personnel carriers, guns and rocket launchers dot the eerie landscape, each hunkered down behind its own earth revetment. If the Iranians attempted to move toward Amara, they would invite the same decimation that they received in five full-scale attacks last summer, when wave upon wave of poorly trained Islamic Guards rushed across the flood plain...
Another examples is Harvey Mudd's new poetry book. The Plain of Smokes, which translates descriptions of Los Angeles into universal messages. Mudd evokes from anyone who has ever felt strongly about a place a whole range of emotions, such as nostalgia and claustrophobia...
Around the country, in fact, Viet Nam veterans sense a growing acceptance, an accommodation that owes more to plain human respect and less and less to pity. Washington's is not the only monument. Last week in downtown Chicago a commemorative fountain was dedicated, and in Vermont, Interstate 89 last month became Viet Nam Veterans Memorial Highway. On the courthouse lawn in Glasgow, Ky. (pop. 13,000), the brand new black granite marker is still awaiting the names of Barren County's two dozen Viet Nam dead...
...unlike Karl, Barbarosa assiduously cultivates the enmity with his family; he waits with calm expectancy, almost satisfaction, for each male Zabala to come pursuing him--and they inevitably do--across the vacant plain. Karl witnesses these ritualistic encounters with second generation Zabala men, whose fathers Barbarosa had killed during the past 30 years, during his first meeting with Barbarosa. A gunshot suddenly resounds, and a bullet grazes the unflinching Barbarosa's cheek. Instinctively Barbarosa shoots the young man rushing at him. Afterwards, he gently kisses the face of the dead young man and murmurs in all sincerity. "They're damn...