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...Israel, an Iraqi victory in the six-year-old war would be the worst possible outcome; Iraq has supplied frontline troops to three Arab-Israeli wars and provided shelter and support for terrorists such as Abu Nidal and Abul Abbas. A continued stalemate would be best of all: it simultaneously weakens the frontline Arab states, deflects Arab attention from Israel and checks the expansion of Iranian-inspired Islamic fanaticism. But an outright Iranian victory could prove a mixed blessing. Moreover, just as the Tehran arms deal has backfired on the Reagan Administration, it might also turn out to be detrimental...
...offspring. She gets $698 a month in AFDC and $125 in food stamps, more than any of her former boyfriends could offer. "If they can't do their part," she says, "I don't think they should be coming around." For a while, Williams lived in a private shelter run by a group called Parents of Watts. Alice Harris, a woman known for her ready smile and generosity, runs the program. "Of course welfare is breaking apart families," Harris says. President Reagan's task force on the American family made a similar contention two weeks ago: "Easy availability of welfare...
...apartments when their low-income housing is converted to condominiums; some hold jobs but cannot find or afford a new place to live. Many are homeless for the first time, and deeply shamed by the experience. "These are people you would never expect to see in a shelter," says Martha Whelan, director of an emergency facility on Chicago's North Side. "They certainly never expected...
...shelters across the country, the new homeless are attempting to come to terms with their daunting circumstances. Kerry Alston, 24, looks like thousands of other city students as he saunters through Manhattan's crowds on his way to a computer class, a bookbag slung jauntily over one shoulder. But when he leaves the refuge of the classroom, Alston returns to the buzzing confusion of the Fort Washington Armory in New York City, an enormous room that sleeps as many as 900 men. Alston's luck went bad after he lost his job as a security guard last July and then...
Clark M. Pratt '87, supervisor of the University Lutheran Homeless Shelter, and Dan P. Buchanan '89 took to the streets of the Square early last week and gained a total of 80 signatures, four from Harvard undergraduates. Meanwhile, Cindy Hyatt, a resident tutor in Adams House, gathered 17 student signatures in the house's dining hall...