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"At a distance, the world seemed so chaotic, I could not imagine what had happened to the children," says Rosenblatt. "But once I saw that they were fairly safe and I would not be able to get to all of them [they were scattered in Syria, Jordan and southern Lebanon...
The conditions were far from ideal for making a foreign policy decision so fraught with risk. Alexander Haig, who had tried and failed to take charge of Administration policy, was vacationing at a mountain resort in West Virginia after his removal as Secretary of State. His designated successor, George Shultz...
But the balance of America in Search of Itself shatters that myth. Again and again. White rails on the quotas, racial and otherwise, of Kennedy's and Johnson's assistance programs. He intimates that female activists--who owed their ascendancy to Democratic initiatives--largely discredited those moves toward political equality...
Overhead, arcing tiers of lights blaze down on a few scattered folding chairs and an upright piano with a high sounding board. But the only significant illumination in Good is internal; this is a drama that takes place entirely inside one man's mind.
No responsible researcher foresees such catastrophic consequences from El Chichón. But there are troubling signs. A huge smoglike cloud from the volcano has been spotted at scattered locations around the globe. At the Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, astronomers say the brightness of stars has been reduced...