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...others might regard him when he is gone. Unlike their Palestinian counterparts, Iraq's self-immolating terrorists are not celebrated and memorialized by family and friends. At best, Marwan might be profiled on one of the jihadist websites, but even there, his identity would be concealed to spare his family harassment by Iraqi authorities. "It doesn't matter whether people know what I did," he says. "The only person who matters is Allah--and the only question he will ask me is 'How many infidels did you kill...
Recent disclosures of Iranian efforts to make clandestine purchases of American weaponry and spare parts demonstrate that Iran's condemnation of the U.S. does not prevent it from coveting American technology. These covert attempts to secure what Iran's bellicose anti-Western policies prevent it from obtaining openly suggest one of the Islamic Republic's long-term weaknesses. Unlike the Shah, who tried to open up Iran to the West and turn it into an industrial power, Khomeini has turned the country back on itself. Science and technology are neither condemned nor encouraged. Admissions to the University of Tehran...
...stages all over America, Fool for Love (1983) was the stark tale of two people locked inside a shared obsession--and a spare anthology of modern theater. The moral claustrophobia of No Exit, the strange sibling bond of The Glass Menagerie, the guilty sustaining secret of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the menacing silences of Harold Pinter all brooded under the skin of Sam Shepard's naturalism. So the film version, which Shepard wrote and stars in, should be an event and not a puzzlement. In "opening up" the play, Robert Altman has dissipated some of its caged...
...been their top priority. Says United President James Hartigan: "A good, tough safety program is not only morally right, it's also good business." United, the largest U.S. carrier, opened four new maintenance centers last year, bringing the number to 17, and equipped each with $2 million worth of spare parts and a full complement of mechanics. Other airlines have launched new safety programs. P.S.A. began a "no-notice inspection system" last November, in which pilots and maintenance supervisors make unannounced hangar visits to check whether needed repairs have been done. P.S.A. has also installed a cockpit system that projects...
...began in 1947. The Consumer Price Index, which peaked at a raging 13.3% in 1979, increased only 3.8% last year. Moreover, the expected increase in U.S. economic activity, which ordinarily might send wages and prices sharply higher, is unlikely to do so this time, because factories have plenty of spare capacity and the labor force still contains 7.3 million jobless workers...