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...misguided-they do not amount to a grand obsession with him. That could be a blessing in disguise. It could make it easier for him to modify and moderate the policies that have been pursued in his name. At this late, though not necessarily too late, stage, Reagan could shore up his image as a statesman, and hence his appeal as a politician, by salvaging something from the wreckage of arms control on which he or his successor might be able to build...
Hansen added that in a meet several years ago on the Charles River, six eight-man boats from Harvard and MIT were swamped by high winds and choppy waters. In that case spectators on the shore noticed the rowers' difficulties and summoned help, she said...
...years ago, cocaine users were a rarity at Phoenix House; today a third of the people seeking help say cocaine is their main problem. At Northwestern University on Chicago's North Shore, Dr. Sidney Schnoll, the director of the chemical dependence program, says that in 1979 one or two of the patients were being weaned from coke; today, as in New York, about a third are. Between 1979 and the end of 1981, the number of cokeheads admitted to federally funded treatment programs rose by more than half, from...
...week's biggest uncertainty centered on Arafat's travels. After visiting Morocco, the P.L.O. leader was expected in Amman on March 27 to meet with Hussein. But instead Arafat flew to Saudi Arabia and then to Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait and Syria. Arafat's aim was to shore up Arab support before making any commitment to King Hussein. Arafat did not see Syrian President Hafez Assad, who is strongly opposed to Jordanian participation in peace talks, but he did deliver a fiery speech to a large throng of supporters in Damascus. The next day Arafat arrived...
...girl, is compelling in the play's best moment: having married Gilpin's conventional younger brother, she sees Gilpin come through the window in his sailor's uniform to woo her away. She is all but ready to go when she learns that the shore patrol is downstairs and realizes that Gilpin has bragged about this escapade to everyone he knows. Once again, the knight-errant has undertaken his quest not in chivalry but in folly...