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...perennially promising young man of American letters is 50 and enjoying a very good year indeed. Spring kept him busy accepting awards. Rabbit Is Rich, his third look at an aging ex-jock in southeastern Pennsylvania, is now being issued in paperback after winning the literary Triple Crown: the Pulitzer Prize ("Critics have called the book a fulfillment of Updike's fabulous promise"), an American Book Award ("Let us celebrate the prestidigitator who tells today with passion and warning, and tricks it into language's jubilee") and a commendatory scroll from the National Book Critics Circle ("The novel...
Pontiac, which has a $55 million stadium and a 28.2% unemployment rate, is more depressed than ever. "It will probably mean the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars," says Earl Kreps of the Chamber of Commerce, "not just in Pontiac but all of southeastern Michigan." The city-owned Silverdome will lose $275,000 for every missed game. The city of Miami had the foresight to purchase a $300,000 strike-insurance policy in July (premiums: $12,000). That should about cover a season's losses in parking fees and concession sales. In San Francisco, Mayor Dianne Feinstein said...
Everyone in Baghdad corners people coming in from the southeastern city of Basra, wanting to know what is happening near the front. The exodus of panicky Europeans from Basra has become a virtual flood, and the anxiety there about the future is reminiscent of the feeling in Iran during the Shah's last days...
...Jaruzelski's measures fell far short of satisfying most Poles. He did not mention Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who is being held in a hunting lodge in southeastern Poland. Although Jaruzelski said the governing military council hoped to end martial law "before the end of the year," he added that the Sejm would first have to grant the Council of Ministers unspecified "special powers." It did not take long for Poles to see for themselves that little had changed. Before dawn on National Day, security forces destroyed a cross of evergreens and flowers that had been placed in Warsaw...
When you screen out that much sunlight, that's an important event." El Chichón's importance caught scientists by surprise. Located in an impoverished area of southeastern Mexico, where the Zoque Indians scratch out a living by farming the volcano's slopes, it erupted with much less fury than Mount St. Helens and gave off only a fourth to a sixth as much debris as its Yankee rival. But as Volcanologist Wendell Duffield of the U.S. Geological Survey notes, "At Mount St. Helens the barrel of the cannon was pointed laterally. At El Chich...