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...coming to power in 1983, Argentine President Raul Alfonsin has tried a variety of economic programs in an attempt to control inflation, now steaming ahead at an annual rate of 1,010%. While well intentioned, his efforts have generally been viewed with the same skepticism that attends an inveterate smoker's vow to quit even as he reaches for his third pack...
...clove cigarettes--to it's illogical extreme. As he works over the grill, slicing and frying, he radiates certain anger--feeling each new order is an unwarranted imposition. On occasion he explodes, and leaps over the counter to confront the felon--in this case an unsuspecting clove cigarette smoker: "Get out of here with that fag cigarette...
Wherever the author goes, father-son parallels seem to stretch to the horizon without touching: in the Roman Catholic Church, which he abandons and rejoins; in the attitudes of his doctors after Lance, a heavy smoker, suffers a heart attack at 36; in the jousting of police and demonstrators. The relationship that causes the greatest internal rift is the one between Hugh Morrow and Nelson Rockefeller. "No one does the words better than Hughie," Henry Kissinger remarks, as if "he were giving an endorsement to the pastry chef." Those words, Morrow acrimoniously notes, are what Rockefeller demands for 21 years...
...clove craze began on the West Coast around 1980. Now, says Beatrice Schwalbe, 19, a former two-pack-a-day kretek smoker from Costa Mesa, "anywhere you find a bunch of teen-agers, you'll find clove cigarettes." New York City Importer George Georgopulo reports that sales of the two leading brands--Jakarta and Djarum--have jumped 40% in the past year alone...
According to her hospital roommate, Teresa is a tall, thin, outgoing blond and a heavy smoker who worried about her daughter. The newborn was transferred to the Loma Linda medical center, a Seventh-day Adventist institution with an excellent reputation in pediatric cardiology. Doctors there explained to Teresa that the baby would probably die within a few days and that she could either leave her at the hospital or take her home. Raedel tearfully told the Los Angeles Times that after a sleepless vigil, "watching her to make sure she was breathing," they took the child home...