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...order to relieve food shortages, hunger stricken nations should remove government price limits on the food market and rescind unfair protections for industrialists and urban laborers...
...immigration is understandable. America is, after all, the land of opportunity, where those who are ambitious can rise. Most of the young men who leave depressed, poverty-stricken Sicily, with its stifling traditions and high unemployment, work their way toward this goal in their new homeland by digging ditches, laying bricks, driving taxis or waiting on tables in restaurants owned by more affluent relatives. But a few do not. Their choice of employer: the Mafia...
...following debate, we are presented with the clearest choice in over 50 years. (That, by the way, was the Hoover-Roosevelt contest. It would be interesting to know what side Mr. Bush was suggesting we should have supported...) The real issues are Ronald Reagan's War on the Poverty Stricken, his stance on civil rights, his politicization of religion, his destruction of the environment, and certainly not least, his lack of a foreign policy...
...days a Soviet Golf II-class submarine zigzagged erratically across the strategic Sea of Japan. Occasionally the vessel would dive, resurface and send off clouds of heavy smoke, while support ships waited near by. Finally an oceangoing Soviet tug took the obviously stricken sub in hand and began towing it at a snail's pace in the general direction of Vladivostok, headquarters of the Soviet Pacific Fleet. As the Japanese press closely followed the drama, defense officials in Tokyo quietly pondered a couple of minor mysteries: What was the warship, of a type capable of launching nuclear-tipped ballistic...
Heller's David comes onstage in the same condition that afflicted the original at the beginning of I Kings: "Now King David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat." This time around, the dying leader has more to worry about than just the squabbling between his sons Adonijah and Solomon over who will succeed him. There is his reputation to consider: "I don't like to boast-I know I boast a bit when I say I don't have to boast-but I honestly think...