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...fired as an electronics technician because, as his wife Jane explains, "they said he was too slow and inattentive." Trey Smith, another Landmark enlistee, had similar symptoms and his own deep frustrations. A superb pulling guard at his Dallas high school, Smith saw a raft of football scholarships sink because of his hopeless transcript. Smith had known about his disability since he was eight; Thompson learned from a psychologist that he was dyslectic when he flunked out of Franklin. "No wonder I'm not making it," he thought at the time...
...publicity is to LaRouche's benefit. Since the LaRouchites' win in Illinois, the Democratic Party is screening local candidates to weed out LaRouche followers. Moreover, continued exposure may sink his cult in a sea of ridicule. Said Wesley McCune, director of Washington-based Group Research Inc., which studies right-wing organizations: "Now everybody can see just how crazy...
...alarmed about the high level of consumer debt. Warns Gilbert Heebner, chief economist for Philadelphia-based CoreStates Financial, a bank holding company: "Debt problems have the potential to retard economic growth and, at worst, lead to another recession." And if a slump comes, many debt-laden families could sink into insolvency. Says Henry Kaufman, chief economist for Wall Street's Salomon Brothers: "American households as a whole have never been more exposed to a downturn...
Brown's unassailable logic: if the U.S. and the Soviet Union don't stop the arms race, they will 1) blow the world up or 2) simply sink below the Rising Sun from the burden of their arsenals. And even as huge forces grow less practical, many other nations are dragged into the arms competition. In 25 years the annual global outlay for arms has gone from $400 billion to $940 billion. The cost now exceeds the entire income of the poorer half of humanity...
...Force raid on Beirut was so slim as to be ridiculous. The penalty for failure was also too great. If anything, Delta Force is a demonstration of how dangerous such rash, jingoistic actions can be. Of course, it is also a demonstration of how low the movie industry can sink...