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Events rush on. In the Roosevelt Room, outside Reagan's office, the Soviet visitors were nervous. When the interview began, they read carefully scripted questions that also were statements against American positions. Reagan covered familiar ground on arms reduction, Star Wars, the standard sore points. All very proper, very cool. He told them that there would be a fresh U.S. arms proposal, but otherwise he said nothing new. The novelty was the fact of the interview...
That hate is directed straight at Jews, not "Zionists" or "Israel" or any other euphemism employed on Monday night. Black anti-Semitism is a special sore spot with Jewish Americans, some of whom gave their lives in the civil rights wars of the 1950s and 1960s. Many more blacks have stood side by side with Jews against bigotry than have stood against them. Yet lately some black ministers and politicians have sounded ambivalent about Farrakhan, praising the self-help program as valuable and treating the bigotry as a minor flaw. Writers such as James Baldwin and Richard Wright have warned...
...people in Casmalia say they feel unwell. Many children seem to have developed bronchitis. McCalip discovered he had high blood pressure late last fall, as did the Vaniters. "I just been so dizzy," says Phyllis. "And our chests hurt." Paulette Postiff has kidney disease, she and her son get sore throats, and her husband has headaches and eye irritation. "Everybody in Casmalia has a runny nose," says Ruthanne Tompkins. "Dave and I are not very health conscious, but if my husband gets cancer because somebody was nasty . . ." The talk almost always turns to carcinomas. "You may not see a growth...
...accustomed to the feel of a juicy wad in his mouth and the slight head buzz that goes with it. By the time he entered high school, he was dipping his way through seven to ten cans a week. Then in 1983, his senior year, Marsee developed a painful sore on his tongue. It refused to heal, and a biopsy showed it was malignant. Over the next six months, the teenager, from Ada, Okla., endured four operations, progressively losing parts of his tongue, throat and jaw. Neither the surgery nor searing radiation treatments contained the cancer. In February...
...decade of this Sunday-to-Sunday routine has left Young with a permanently sore back and sapped some of his still considerable energy. Says he: "I thought I could go on with three or four hours of sleep forever, but it seems that I can't any more. I've tried, but I can't." He now sometimes takes several hour-long catnaps during...