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Soldier of Fortune features mayhem and violence for its own sake. For them, killing is pure technique. But technique begs application. It's scary. It's just plain scary...
...settle one thing: as a regional headquarters for businessmen, diplomats, educators and journalists involved in the Middle East, there is no adequate substitute for Beirut. Neither Cairo nor Athens, Amman nor Tehran has proved able to match prewar Beirut in services, location, accommodations, creature comforts and just plain fun. Nor does any other city offer the combination of political, economic and cultural freedom that was the special Beirut cachet. But can that old Beirut of amiable permissiveness ever be reconstructed...
...player of the week honors. But Andy Puopolo was more than a football player. More even than a serious student who planned to attend medical school in the fall. He was the epitome of devotion, to his family, to his friends, and to his home community of Jamaica Plain...
...make amends. The school committee has long been a source of strident racism and fiscal irresponsibility; the city spends over $3000 per student each year to provide a grossly inadequate education. District elections will grant representation to previously ignored neighborhoods such as the South End, Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. By reducing the committee-person's constituency from over 600,000 to 40,000, representatives will be held more accountable. Budget restraints and strengthened powers for the superintendent are prerequisites for greater efficiency...
Gaunt and hollow-cheeked, he wore a gray-flecked crew cut that was clearly the work of a prison barber, and his be wilderment was plain. "You see," explained exiled Soviet Dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, "sometimes I still don 't know whether I'm free or still in prison. I've talked about nothing else but my life in prison since I arrived here. " The first political prisoner ever traded by the Soviets, Bukovsky, 33, had just been swapped for Chilean Communist Luis Corvalán (TIME, Dec. 27). A native of a small town in eastern Russia...