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...living near Cavendish, Vt., the Nobel prizewinning novelist attacked American democracy, whose restrictions have, in his view, ensured that "mediocrity triumphs. " He chided the U.S. for "a decline in courage," particularly "among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite"-a point that must have stung his audience. He spoke scathingly of America's intoxication with "habitual extreme safety and well-being "; its devotion to the letter of the law, which paralyzes the country's ability "to defend itself against the corrosion of evil"; the absorption of the Western press with "gossip, nonsense, vain talk...
...most vehement opponents of any bargain with the kidnapers were still the Communists. Stung by the Brigatisti's repeated claims to be fighting for "Communism," the party was determined to put as much distance as possible between itself and the ultra-leftist "criminals." Arguing that a surrender to the terrorists would lead to more violence and civil war, Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer told a party youth congress in Florence: "We must be inflexible not because of a cold and abstract 'reason of state,' but because, if we yield, the democratic institutions would enter into a suicidal logic...
...carded an 86, marred by a ten on the 16th hole. His drive bounded into the woods, putting him "in jail." He took a lusty cut with his second shot, decimating a colony of beetles and cutting a yard-long swath through a dandelion patch in the process. The stung ball scooted into the clear, hit a rock and ricocheted skyward, landing well behind the bewildered...
...agreement: the Russians should either agree to a drastic reduction in strategic weapons or defer such problems as the Soviet Backfire bomber and U.S. Cruise missile and accept a simple continuation of the modest limitations on offensive weapons tentatively set by Brezhnev and Ford at Vladivostok in 1974. Brezhnev, stung by both the human rights campaign and what sounded like an arms ultimatum, coldly rejected the proposals and in March of last year scolded a red-faced Vance in Moscow...
Only Walker and Shaw managed to look sharp in doubles, as they stung Morrison and Mark Strasser with a couple of 6-4 sets...