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...Reagan Administration is taking up right where Allen Dulles and his CIA left off. As Schlesinger and Kinzer so effectively argue, this type of policy has no victors--only victims. Eventually, the people of Guatemala, after much senseless bloodshed, will rise up as they did in 1945 and rid themselves of whichever dictator happens to be in power. Then the United States, rightly perceived as the ally of repression, will lose another potential friend to the Soviet camp. The bitter fruit of 1954 is already tough enough to digest. Imagine the revulsion if that fruit, a product of narrow-minded...
...moderately happy married couple haunted by the blithe spirit of the husband's first wife. Elvira, who is really no more appealing than his second, living wife, but whose unusual status allows her a snideness the other characters cannot match. Throw in an eccentric medium who tries to rid the couple of the unwelcome guest, and the comic possibilities are lush. Logic can have no place in such a world. "After all." Charles tells Elvira. "I've been married to Ruth for five years, and you've been dead for seven." Enough said...
Vellucci called the Linnaean St. case "a monkey on our back" and said that despite his request for a moratorium on condo discussions, "We're trying to get rid...
...Recovery Act of 1976, the ban was put in place last November in response to widespread concerns that leaking chemical drums were contaminating thousands of disposal sites. Critics of the ban, including the Chemical Manufacturers Association, had claimed that sorting out liquid from solid toxic wastes and then getting rid of them was prohibitively expensive. Incineration, for example, costs more than $100 per bbl., vs. $25 simply to bury the stuff. EPA officials admitted last week that even before the ban went into effect, they had decided to scuttle it as "unworkable." Edgy environmentalists think that may still happen, despite...
...nine successive speakers at last night's rally which included representatives of the former Communist Hanoi Government and the Abdala Cuban Movement an anti Castro organization A Soviet emigre warned of the miliaturization of Soviet society, following other speakers' warnings that " it's not too late to get rid of the Soviet regime...