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...Editors: "Arming the World" [Oct. 26] brought into sharper focus the terrible dilemma we face. Which is better-to curtail arms sales to Third World powers and increase their vulnerability or to arm everyone to the hilt and wait for mutual annihilation? I do not see much to cheer about in either camp...
After it's over and before the Stones hit the next city on their current "Tattoo You" rampage, Robert Palmer or some other prominent rockologist will write yet another piece confirming that the group has recaptured the old raunch, that Richards seems sharper than ever, that Jagger can still hypnotize the masses by merely taking off his shirt and sticking his hands in his pants. "This is the real thing," we will be reminded...
...when they dragged me out I was numb and almost senseless. My skin was frozen and felt like wood. "Let's warm him up," said an Islamic Guard. The two began whipping me with cables. At first I couldn't feel much pain, but then it got sharper and sharper. I was bleeding all over. I passed...
...story that has been told before, but never with a sharper feeling of epic excitement or a sadder sense of destiny...
...Reagan noted, the nation has not heard the last of economics. In order to fulfill his promise to balance the budget by 1984, the President will have to make even sharper spending cuts. By Administration estimates, which many private economists feel are too rosy, almost $30 billion more in reductions will be needed for 1983. Even the Defense Department has been instructed to prepare a list of possible cuts. Says Meese: "No program is immune." Despite the public outcry, the presidential counsellor claims "the cuts so far have been relatively minimal, not by any means draconian...