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...machine guns appeared on street corners, the nature of the tempest became clear. Officers of the 15,000-man Mauritanian army, led by Lieut. Colonel Mustapha Ould Mohammed Salek, 42, had overthrown the regime of President Moktar Ould Daddah, 53, the mild-mannered strongman who had ruled the poverty-stricken country of 1.5 million Muslims since it gained independence from France...
...Stricken with the suffocating, spasmodic chest pains of severe angina, Robert, a 47-year-old chauffeur, recently entered Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. Tests showed that his left main coronary artery was clogged with cholesterol-laden plaque. That made him a likely candidate for a coronary bypass, an operation in which segments of leg vein are sewn onto the arteries to shunt blood around blocked areas. But with Robert's approval, Lenox Hill doctors decided to forgo surgery and try a new and highly experimental alternative: a procedure with the tongue-twisting name of "percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty...
...Proposition 13. Said Brown: "We have our marching orders from the people. This is the strongest expression of the democratic process in a decade." He promised to implement 13 "in the most human, sensitive way I can"?and without raising state taxes to bail out the newly stricken local units of government. But, he admitted, "things will never be the same...
...same military and psychological tolls that Feldstein describes as being suffered by kibbutzniks have also been endured on the Arab side where Palestinian refugees and southern Lebanese villages have instead been the victims. Similarly, the same sort of defensive psychological mechanisms have enabled the courageous, homeless Palestinians and war-stricken Lebanese to withstand such perpetual agony. Just as Iraelis try to forget the danger by placing their fate in God's will, so do victimized Arabs sing and pray to Allah...
...transmitting information about events that must never be forgotten. But it raised many questions, both trivial and profound. Scriptwriter Green, an intelligent and indefatigable craftsman, author of The Last Angry Man, designed an epic that follows a bourgeois German Jewish doctor, Josef Weiss, and his family through the stricken, incomprehensible years 1935 to 1945. Dr. and Mrs. Weiss die at Auschwitz, as does their oldest son, Karl. A daughter, Anna, becomes autistic after her rape by drunken Nazis; in a procession of the retarded and aged, she is gassed at the euthanasia center at Hadamar. A younger son, Rudi, joins...