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Perversely, some sufferers begin to resent their own attractiveness. An afflicted New York lawyer, married and the mother of a baby girl, was enraged when a construction worker would flirt or whistle. "You bastard," she thought, "little do you know I'm poisoned." New York Architect Geoffrey Meisel refused to go into bars for months after he got herpes, because he felt like a fake. "You're putting on this great front when you know that deep down inside you is this lesion...
...Democratic Front (F.D.N.), which claims to have 2,000 armed men who make regular incursions into Nicaragua from their sanctuaries in Honduras. Led by José Francisco Cardenal Telleria, a civil engineer, the F.D.N. has been especially active since March. Linked to the F.D.N. are many Miskito Indians who resent the Sandinistas for having forced thousands of them out of their homes along the Honduran border and into internment camps. The Miskitos are now in open revolt, and running battles with the Nacaraguan armed forces have been going on for the past three weeks. The Honduran government has mostly turned...
...with the Eastern Bloc, but also conduct 7.5 percent of their trade with the Soviets. Only 1 percent of their trade is conducted with the U.S. And finally, the Europeans lack the domestic gas resources of this country. The Europeans feel the pipeline was a necessary compromise, and they resent U.S. interference, especially after Washington gave implicit support for the project during its early planning stages. Thatcher has demonstrated the extent of her anger by publicly advising the British-based John Brown Engineering that it should defy the prohibition on U.S. subsidiaries from working on the pipeline. France and Italy...
...Arabs also deeply resent the fact that the Israelis chose to give military support to Khomeini's Iran. The Israelis respond that the aid effort was based on their traditional enmity toward Iraq. They claim their aid was halted several months ago, long before the Iranian invasion of Iraq began. Other sources say that some Israeli aid, including the training of Iranian military personnel in the use of American arms, is continuing...
...resent your headline "Suburban' Abbie Hoffman Encourages Civil Disobedience" (6/29/82). I live in a town called Fineview, population 87, with an unemployment rate of 9.8 percent in the summer and 60.5 percent in the winter. It is scarcely suburbia...