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...longoutlawed African National Congress, who has been in prison for 24 years. In the meantime, a fourth foreign journalist, West German TV Correspondent Heinrich Buettgen, was ordered to leave the country. When the local Foreign Correspondents Association protested the government's "sinister" expulsions policy, it received an angry retort from the Deputy Information Minister, Louis Nel. The real problem, said the peppery Nel, was that "most foreign journalists have consistently misrepresented South Africa abroad by turning a blind eye to constructive developments...
...least through May. The move infuriated exporters such as Yugoslavia and Poland, which rely on hard currency raised from agricultural sales to pay off foreign debts. Officials in Warsaw were especially angered by a U.S. plan to ship powdered milk for distribution in Poland through nongovernment agencies. Their bitter retort: an offer to send blankets and sleeping bags to private charities for the homeless in New York City...
When the Sixth Fleet struck at Libyan air-defense batteries and patrol boats a fortnight ago without suffering a single casualty, America's top military brass celebrated more than just a victory over Muammar Gaddafi. The Pentagon offered the Navy's demonstration of high-tech firepower as a telling retort to an increasingly restive band of congressional critics who accuse the military of building "gold-plated" weapons that will turn out to be duds in combat. Like Libya's radar transmitters, the Pentagon's detractors were silenced, but only for the moment...
During a seven-hour board meeting at Eastern's Miami headquarters that culminated in the decision to sell, the atmosphere was tense. Before the vote was taken, Borman shouted at Bryan, "I'm going to tell the 41,000 employees that you destroyed this airline." Bryan's retort: "I'll tell them that you did it." To outside observers, it was no way to make a rational business decision. Says John Simmons, an Amherst, Mass.-based management consultant: "It didn't have to end in a shoot-out at the OK Corral...
...charge that extravagantly punitive lawsuits are driving many from high-risk specialties; lawyers countercharge that patients need the right to sue because medical societies rarely drive out low-quality practitioners. If doctors cry that between 1980 and 1984 the average malpractice award jumped 63%, to $660,123, lawyers may retort that half of all awards made in that period were below an unchanging median sum of $200,000. The average annual charge for malpractice insurance coverage may have increased 79% between 1976 and 1984, but doctors' total income went up 89% at the same time...