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...caustic and often chauvinistic--he once responded to a young woman who wanted to be a combat pilot by asking, "Have you ever seen a man knitting socks?"-- he built and commanded the Israeli air force from 1958 to 1966 and the following year helped lead the military's rapid, pre-emptive victory in the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hard-liners and through his rapport with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat helped cement that country's historic 1979 peace agreement with Israel...
...would like to express our relief that all Matherites have prison cell singles in which they can all be quarantined for the duration of this outbreak. The bumping and grinding in which Matherites consistently engage is not only unpleasant for the eye, it’s facilitating the rapid spread of disease. It’s long past time for Mather’s Masters and House Committee to put locks on the outside of Mather doors. Then it’s time for Lysol fumigation—particularly the room of that sophomore whose genitals were affected...
...martial-law proclamation that began his era of authoritarian rule. Two days later, despite earlier denials, he declared that the balloting would include the vice-presidential contest, reactivating an office that Marcos has kept vacant since 1973 to discourage presidential ambitions among his subordinates. On a rapid foray into the countryside, the President defined the essence of the upcoming campaign in a single word. "The issue," he declared, "is Marcos...
Despite that rapid and spontaneous outpouring, rescue work at Armero proceeded at a slow and frustrating pace. The torrential mudslides washed away roads and bridges, limiting efforts to deliver both rescuers and relief supplies. Foul weather and the continuing down pour of volcanic ash from the smoking mountain kept Colombian helicopters away from Armero until Thursday afternoon. Only on Friday could the U.S. fly in any of the big CH-47 Chinook helicopters, capable of evacuating dozens of people at a time. In the interim, only nine small helicopters, able to carry just a handful of victims each, had flown...
...board member and director of the Center of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong: "I do not see a very bright picture for 1986." Only China, where capitalist-style reforms have helped drive growth to an estimated 12% this year, is expected to expand at a very rapid clip...