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Though the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December caused the number of U.S. terrorist victims last year to shoot up sharply, hijackings and kidnapings have actually decreased in recent years. A surge of terrorist incidents was expected after the downing of the Iranian Airbus by the U.S.S. Vincennes last July, but it did not take place. French hostages in Lebanon were released last year with the intervention of Iran...
...paint goes on thickly but not with abandon. The surface seems to store light, like stone. It is opaque; you can't see through it or even into it. It is not about space. Besides, the inlaid, modular, even puzzle-like surfaces of Scully's recent canvases prevent the eye from roaming them too freely. Stray out of one box and you finish in another, not on a free horizon. Hence the density, the lack of spaces between things, which adds to the gravity of Scully's work. It has something to do with the largeness of architecture...
Tough policies more than tough talk will be needed to overhaul the economy. A World Bank report shows that state subsidies in Poland have grown alarmingly in recent years, and now amount to 30% of budget expenditures. To continue the supports is to risk bankruptcy. Yet removing them could create just the sort of hardship that provoked violent unrest in the past, leading to the downfall of governments in 1956, 1970 and again in 1980, the year Solidarity was born...
...year, the Alexandra Five, charged with treason for trying to create autonomous local government structures, were acquitted, and last year the Sharpeville Six, sentenced to hang for their part in the murder of a black township official, obtained commutations of their death sentences. Perhaps the biggest advance is the recent working paper of a government-appoint ed law commission, which has proposed a South African Bill of Rights, an end to apartheid laws and an equal vote for all South Africans...
...editors. Another woman, a food critic, is upset because her employer's policy against political activism all but prohibits her from publicly expressing her views on abortion -- an issue that she will probably never have to cover. Across the country, the heating up of the abortion issue in recent months has confronted reporters with an acute professional dilemma: How can they personally take a public stand on a question they feel strongly about without seeming to compromise the objectivity of the publication for which they work...