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...touched down in Villahermosa four times in a week, giving televised updates on everything from the use of satellite phones in shelters to the drop points of millions of bottles of water. "The reaction has been very impressive," said Helena Ranchal, regional head of the European Commission's emergency-relief??fund...
...throughout. Robert Mann retaliated by playing with his back to the crowd. When the Concord was playing at Vassar in 1972, the group had to stop twice in a lengthy George Rochberg quartet to replace broken strings. As he turned the last page, Violinist Sokol breathed a sigh of relief???and his music fluttered to the floor. When Cellist Norman Fischer bent down to retrieve it, he knocked over Second Violinist Andrew Jennings' stand. Then Fischer's own crashed over. It was a case of concerted collapse...
Palestinian liberation factions have been so busy lately assassinating one another that it was almost a relief???for them?to be at war with Israel again. Last week, in the aftermath of an Israeli air raid on Palestinian camps on the outskirts of Beirut, an elderly Palestinian woman expressed some consolation as she mourned the four dead and 14 wounded. "At least," she said, "these were Israeli bombs, and we are not afraid to die. When we are killed by Palestinians, it is shameful...
...government to stop and get out of our lives." Said Democratic Congressman Jim Jones of Oklahoma, who is trying to shepherd a $15 billion tax-cut program through the House: "Those middle-income folks at $10,000 to $30,000 are on the verge of revolt. They want tax relief???and they want it now. They...
...home, after the first shock?and relief???reaction would depend to a large extent on what the victorious Communists did. If they followed their takeover with a bloodbath and then began to infiltrate neighboring countries like Thailand and Malaysia, the U.S. mood might quickly turn ugly. There would be cries of "Who lost Southeast Asia?" as there once were of "Who lost China?" And, more bitter than the China question (for the U.S. did not fight there): "Who betrayed our boys?" The forces that had argued for withdrawal might well be the victims of harsh political attacks...