Word: roof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is one last place to see: the roof of the bunker where Samer and Colonel Azmi were encountered last September. At the time, this roof was a room, an office, with straw walls, a straw roof, furniture and people. Over there stood the colonel's Swedish modern desk, disproportionately large and stylish. Red fake-leather chairs were positioned with their backs to the walls on two sides of the office. On them sat a dozen of the colonel's men-his inner circle perhaps. None spoke but the colonel, though all nodded approvingly at his harangue...
...only in the memory. The colonel is not here. The desk is not here. Nor the men, nor the roof, nor the walls. Nothing remains on top of this bunker any more, including a portion of the roof itself, heaved high in a corner by an Israeli artillery hit. Where the colonel delivered his harangue, the noon sun drills. There is nothing else but silence and loose straw. No one who did not know what function the straw originally served could possibly guess that this was once a place of importance...
With the walls down, one can clearly see the Mediterranean from the roof, not 500 yds. to the west. The mind sails it; first into the past, then north up the coast to where the past is now, to the besieged city with its sonic booms and rubbish fires and damaged children. It was for children this trip was taken in the first place. Two are known to be safely out of Lebanon. One is well in Beirut, though in a perilous position. The fourth is probably all right, in hiding with his mother, who will be protected...
University officials finally concluded that delaying this work essentially meant refusing to recognize their inevitable responsibilities and that costs would only increase with time. The ambitious projects now underway illustrate the culmination of that new thinking. Recent projects like the installation of a new roof on Widener Library and the rehabilitation of Briggs Cage pale in comparison to the current flurry of activity. At Lowell House alone last week, 170 workers swarmed over the four-story scaffolding, working doubleshifts to make up for a late start this spring...
Like a freezing man who tries to heat his house by feeding the walls and roof to the fireplace, Government borrowing now threatens to devour virtually every penny that Americans had been expected to save and invest under Reaganomics. Bank Economist Irwin Kellner of New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust calculates that federal loans could consume no less than 92.1% of net national saving this year. Worse, Kellner predicts that in 1983 Government borrowing might take fully 113% of the year's net saving, siphoning money out of virtually every sector of the economy to help keep...