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...lullaby of doom, but it has the flavor of an old ballad. Indeed, Thompson's apprenticeship as part of the seminal English folk-rock band Fairport Convention provides a kind of melodic continuity with the past. "Folk doesn't mean anything any more," he says. "Our strongest roots are in British and Celtic traditional music. In terms of song structure, we come out of the Scottish ballad form more than anything else. But what we play is rock and roll." Thompson, son of a Scotland Yard detective who played guitar in police bands ("He wasn't good...
Reagan adopted the view that challenging Israel too harshly would sacrifice what remains of America's influence over its prickly ally. "Our relationship is our strongest leverage," says an official. Severing this tenuous bond by cutting off weapons or recalling Habib "would give the Israelis a carte blanche to go into West Beirut," says one of Reagan's senior advisers. It was agreed, however, that the U.S. should vote for a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel if the measure could be modified to include references to the need for P.L.O. restraint, and if the mention of sanctions...
Moreover, Kenya's $7 billion economy, long the strongest in East Africa, is in bad shape. At the root of the problem is the Kenyan birth rate of at least 3.9%, the world's highest, compared with .7% in the U.S. Only 15% of the country's land is arable, and, to make matters worse, the government's agriculture program has badly faltered. As a result, Kenya, once self-sufficient in food production, has become a chronic importer of expensive grains, including the daily staple, corn. Prices for the country's traditional exports (coffee...
...each American. The HHS report noted that the rapid increase in medical spending was caused in great part by the routine payment of two-thirds of all medical charges by Government programs and private insurers. "These disturbing figures," said HHS Secretary Richard Schweiker, "are the strongest argument for reforming the existing system of health-care-cost reimbursement...
Earlier this month, Procter & Gamble took its strongest action. It filed defamation suits against three persons who allegedly spread the rumors and advocated a boycott of Procter & Gamble products: an Atlanta man who works for a grocery-products distributor and a Pensacola, Fla., couple who sell competing household goods door to door...