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...Overlook represents our monstrous, ghostly past, a life-giving-and-taking force similar to the black slab in 2001. "You've always been the caretaker," the ghost of Delbert Grady informs Jack, and indeed, man has always been here. When Jack tells Danny that he never, ever, wants to leave the hotel, he is striving for a painful immortality that cannot be reached outside the hotel...
...sank in 20 ft. of water on top of the cars. Two tugboats were able to tow the freighter away from the bridge, but divers were hampered by squalls and by fears that a 40-ft. slab of roadway hanging precariously from the abutment might tumble in too. Nonetheless, the divers soon were able to recover 18 bodies; at least 14 more people were believed dead...
Medically, things are looking up for people on the Hill, a rough, largely unchanged slab of the California Sierras, dotted with gold-panners' shanties and crisscrossed by streams of flashing gold and speckled trout. Fortnight ago, for example, when Logger Bill Lingenfelter was pinned by a "widowmaker"-a tree falling in the wrong direction-his crew mates rushed him to Dr. John Rose. The "Doc" swiftly took 30 stitches in Lingenfelter's right leg and put splints...
...security forces sit on tops of hills and wait for ZIPRA and ZANLA to knock each other to pieces. Then they move in and kill." In November ZIPRA and ZANLA units clashed 100 miles north of the capital as both sides attempted to gain control of a contested slab of territory before the cease-fire takes effect. To minimize such battles, Mugabe's troops will probably assemble at ten of the so-called guerrilla collection points, while Nkomo's men gather at the other six camps. But even if word of this complex plan can be relayed...
...military front, Hassan has been locked for almost four years in a no-win war against the guerrillas of the leftist Polisario Front, which is fighting to turn the barren but phosphate-rich, 103,000-sq.-mi. slab of desert into an independent "Saharan Arab Democratic Republic." At home, he has had to contend with rising public anger and labor strikes prompted by a deteriorating economy; it has suffered both from the decline in the price of phosphates, which provide a third of Morocco's export earnings, and from the war's cost, estimated at $1 million...