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Inflation leaps, the dollar sags and U.S. oilmen scream...
...badly divided the Administration," says Roger Conner, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform: "The libertarians scream about getting the Government off the backs of the people, while the law-and-order types see our laws as a mockery. The pragmatists see all pain and no gain and wonder why the Administration got involved at all." Now the problem is in the hands of Congress, which is also badly split by regional and ethnic quarrels on this emotional issue...
What happened next was unusual, even at Port Washington. As I was in the midst of returning a backhand with pitiful timidity, the chunky kid coiled his body into a ball and then released, throwing himself into the air with a fierce, raging scream and launching his Wilson Prostaff toward the high ceiling. The raquet returned to earth on my side of the green court divider, bouncing at the service line and coming to rest near to where I had been awaiting a deep forehand. I called a let, as seemed only appropriate when under attack by unidentified flying Prostaffs...
...city. Cuts in federal aid to cities under the Reagan Administration will, he fears, jeopardize his plans to reduce crime, continue building and improve transportation-an eight-mile subway system will open next year. Baltimore's recent successes may even work against it. Says Schaefer: "Now, unless you scream about going down the drain, Washington assumes you're doing fine. We're doing fine, but we still need a lot of federal help...
...week's end Habib arrived back in Beirut to the scream and thud of some of the heaviest shelling and artillery fire since the civil war. He needed no further reminder of the urgency of attaining a broader U.S. goal: to work out a settlement among the warring factions in Lebanon so that crises would not keep on exploding like a series of land mines. To that end, Habib has also been seeking ways to strengthen Lebanon's army, to get the Syrians to take more responsibility for disruptive left-wing activities in and around Beirut...