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...Israeli leaders could be more different from one another than the aging, pugnacious Menachem Begin, 67, and the vigorous if sometimes reticent Shimon Peres, 57. Begin was forged by the Holocaust, and carries his fury like the harpoon of Captain Ahab. Peres escaped the scar. The difference is crucial. Begin, looking backward to the genocide, vows with other Israelis: "Never again." But he seems to have little patience with the grievances of the Arabs or understanding of their rights, and too often he shapes a policy that invites attack. Peres, who observes the vow less flamboyantly, seems more open...
...President, thanks to his remarkable physical constitution, has apparently been spared complications. Besides the six-inch scar on his left side, Reagan's only hospital vestige will be a bill-to be paid by insurance for federal employees injured on the job. -By Kurt Anderson...
...policemen injured-26 requiring hospitalization-along with scores of civilians. Nearly 100 rioters were arrested. Estimates of property damage ran to more than $2.2 million. Beyond the burnt buildings and ravaged streets twinkling with shards of glass from shattered storefront windows, however, London now bears a more lasting scar: the psychic damage from the worst race riot in British history, an ugly explosion reminiscent of the violence that tore apart dozens of American cities in the '60s and, only eleven months ago, left whole sections of Miami in flames...
...heap of dust and rubble. Malle's Atlantic City is a patchwork of the old corruption and the new, numbers-runners and cocaine dealers, rickety frame houses and opulent casinos, aging beauty queens and female croupiers-in-training. There's always some new growth blistering out from the old scar tissue, and by the end of this story of love-and-death in the gambling town, you might wish someone would finally deluge the place with antiseptic...
...most frightening thing, perhaps, is that it has all become so commonplace. But one crime, certainly, has left a lasting scar of frustration and loss on the entire staff. TIME Photographer Paul Keating was shot to death on a Manhattan street last year as he attempted to stop a mugging...