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...after the shower of protests from the Israelis and Israel's backers in the U.S. But the Administration was openly angry at the Israelis for their most recent raids on Lebanon, particularly since Washington suspects the Israelis are continuing to use American-supplied equipment in violation of a previous agreement with the U.S. But the State Department was not particularly anxious to pursue that point just now. A spokesman emphasized that the Administration was not contemplating a reduction in the $2.7 billion in military aid already committed to Israel as a way to browbeat Jerusalem into ceasing its artillery...
...German police have seized 116 kilograms of heroin, a higher figure than was reported by all the other countries in Western Europe combined. At least 430 people died of drug overdose in West Germany last year, more than an eightfold increase since 1970. This year promises to batter all previous records: 335 drug-related deaths have been reported through July. On a per capita basis, police calculate, the Federal Republic now probably has more addicts than...
Compared with past downturns, some of the current cutting is following unusual patterns. In previous recessions, forms of entertainment and diversion such as books, records and movies flourished during hard times because they were relatively inexpensive. But they are no longer so cheap, and therefore no longer recession-proof...
Dardis' telling of this poignant tale is serviceable. He knows the early days of Hollywood; his previous book Some Time in the Sun was a good account of how writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West functioned at the dream factory. Yet too many sentences creep along under the crustacean weight of adjectives: "The staggering impact of the immense success of these shows on the entire entertainment world . . ." Worse, Dardis too often strains after bogus significance: "Like Ernest Hemingway, who also spent childhood summers on a lake in Michigan, Buster early became an extremely proficient duck hunter." Such...
...results. The two were Yoruba Chieftain Obafemi Awolowo, a major architect of Nigeria's independence, and Nnamdi Azikiwe, an Ibo leader who was the nonelected President during the brief parliamentary republic. In the campaign, Shagari emphasized his experience as a minister of finance, education and other departments in previous regimes. Though once a leader of an organization that advocated "national unity" under Hausa domination, he picked an Ibo running mate. Moreover, he managed to gloss over the corrupt reputations of many of the N.P.N.'s assembly candidates. Said he: "I am not a judge of morals. Our main...