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...really responsible, comes after Sebastian takes up a drunkard's residence in the remoteness of North Africa. When he leaves-for the last several hours, he is never seen-he takes with him the story's focal point and vitality. Like many narrators, Charles is a reactor, someone who responds to people more interesting than himself. When he is forced to stand in the spotlight, he does not know what to do, and therefore does nothing...
...been uncertain about when and how to lift controls on natural gas and has a narrow grasp of the issues involved. His major initiative has been to support the troubled nuclear power industry, primarily by speeding up licensing procedures and pushing forward with the Clinch River breeder reactor in Tennessee, a $3.2 billion boondoggle whose principal beneficiary will be Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. At best Edwards gets a C. That would hardly matter, unless, of course, the nation is hit with another energy crisis, which the shrinking department is totally unprepared to handle...
...Muammar Gaddafi made it known that he would boycott the session. So did Algeria's Bendjedid Chadli, Marxist South Yemen's Ali Nasser Mohammed and Iraq's Saddam Hussein, who was still smarting from Israel's surprise raid last June on the nuclear reactor in Baghdad. In all, eight top-level Arab leaders failed to go to Fez, including Syria's President Hafez Assad, who sent in his place Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam...
...well. A measure calling for dismissal of striking county employees passed 2 to 1 in San Diego. In Washington State, a proposal to give voters a voice in approving public power projects passed by a vote of 495,013 to 356,784, throwing into doubt a $23.9 billion, five-reactor nuclear power system that has been under construction since 1973. The decision, which may be challenged in court by the Washington Public Power Supply System bondholders, would limit the rights of municipalities to issue revenue bonds for power plants without voter approval. The repercussions are sure to be closely scrutinized...
...sent us one single rifle without the imprimatur of Israel on it." That statement, of course, is ludicrous. Yet it is important evidence that Saudis share the Arab view about the American failure to rein in its Israeli ally, even when Israel bombs civilians in Beirut and a nuclear reactor in Iraq...