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...Polish leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski took a tough line on wage demands during ceremonies in Warsaw...
...hardly obsolete. All of Singer's short fiction, from long-established classics like Gimpel the Fool to the latest story, hot off the presses, is amazingly of a piece. Three basic formulas are constantly repeated. Unrest stirs a rural Polish village, thanks to the mischief of its inhabitants and their attendant demons. An aspiring young author passes his time in Warsaw visiting the Yiddish Writers' Club and storing up everything he hears and does. An older incarnation of the same man, expatriated from Poland and living on Manhattan's Upper West Side, submits willingly to readers and strangers who come...
...doubt. "Anyone directing terrorism is a proper target for elimination," said Major General Amnon Shahak, the I.D.F.'s head of intelligence. Some Israelis predicted that the attack would boost morale throughout the country, and especially within an army frustrated by its inability to put down the uprising and polish Israel's international image as a formidable foe. They suggested that by robbing the P.L.O. of the man responsible for military operations against Israel, the operation had delivered the Palestinians a crippling blow that would demoralize their spirits and deflate the uprising...
...lived up to his promise of being the best and brightest of a new political generation. The Harvard-educated Viet Nam veteran had it all: a subtle and supple mind tempered by a self-aware sense of humor, the savvy of a Southern bull breeder mixed with the polish of a Georgetown Prince Charming. Yet somehow he managed to rack up a woeful string of defeats in the Northern states until he finally limped away last week, perhaps permanently bruised...
Three Harvard women who pledged Delta Sigma Theta this year obeyed a series of strict rules when `on line.' According to a student at the University of Georgia who is considering pledging the sorority, "They are supposed to look alike. They can't wear fingernail polish or makeup.They're not supposed to be with their boyfriends.They have to greet other Black Greeks by saying,greeting most noble Greek.' They're not allowed tosmile," she says...