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...underscore his nation's commitment. He was followed two days later by Vice President George Bush, who visited the site of the carnage wearing a helmet and flak jacket. On Thursday, Secretary of State George Shultz conferred with his French, Italian and British counterparts in the Paris suburb La Celle-Saint-Cloud. After a five-hour meeting under unusually tight security, at a secluded 17th century chateau, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson reiterated "the support of our governments for the Multi-National Force." In his nationwide address on television Thursday evening, President Ronald Reagan made the most forceful pitch...
...some lush corners of Nicaragua, food shortages are not a problem. At a doctor's ranch-style home in a tree-lined southern suburb of Managua, thick churrasco steaks wait beside an outdoor barbecue grill as some 20 weekend guests sip cocktails and pick at turtle egg and black conch appetizers. Half a dozen children race through the garden to the swimming pool. Most of the guests are middle-aged relatives. They talk little of politics but much of their kin who have left for the U.S. There is only a brief flare-up of political emotion...
Dunne has found one unexplained source of opposition: the parents of some students she has encouraged to become teachers. Asks Dunne angrily: "Why is it that people will go from suburb to suburb refusing to buy a house until they figure out where the best schools are, and at the same time forbid their children to become teachers...
...tale exploring the limits of suburban society and marital entropy. A husband returns o a spouse-swapping party after taking his wife home. Her subdued reaction con-ains the author's gloomy assessment of the situation, if not of the entire age of affluence and permissiveness. "The outer suburb was what it was, so was the shell of middle age; she didn't complain because it would be silly to complain when you were fed and clothed and comfortable, when your children were cared for and warm, when you were loved and respected...
...meantime, the once beautiful capital city and its suburbs endured another week of random violence. The fires in the hills were caused by a four-sided artillery duel whose participants included the Druze and Christian militias, the Lebanese Army and the U.S. Sixth Fleet. Even the U.S. ambassador's residence in the suburb of Yarze took several rounds, which set the garden ablaze and forced Ambassador Robert Dillon to seek refuge in the Presidential Palace, a short distance away...