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...telephone service everywhere. The city, sitting more than 5 ft. below sea level in some areas, is ordinarily kept dry by its extensive drainage pumping system, but this time the pumps were unable to keep pace. Stranded residents switched to boats and canoes. For Rose Hushfield in the suburb of Arabi, it was the third time in five years that her house had been flooded. "You get to where there are no more tears...
...treated with the same respect as the intelligent one, the misinformed may talk as long as the informed." History is not the MacNeil-Lehrer Report either. Should one grit one's teeth and recite the First Amendment when, say, American Nazis decide to march in a Chicago suburb (Skokie) inhabited by many Jews who survived the Holocaust? Suppose that a man (William Shockley) wishes to tour American lecture halls suggesting that blacks are inherently inferior to whites...
...first victims in a government reshuffle. Seven more faced embarrassing runoffs (held whenever the first round produces no clear-cut winner). Among them: Interior Minister Gaston Defferre, who has ruled Marseille as a personal fiefdom for 30 years; Finance Minister Jacques Delors, who was running in the Paris suburb of Clichy, a safe Socialist seat for 50 years; and Premier Mauroy, who has controlled the northern industrial city of Lille since 1973. In Paris the Chirac steamroller overpowered both Culture Minister Jack Lang and Socialist Leader Lionel Jospin...
...with the economy. Unemployment runs currently at 10.1%, its highest rate since the Depression; inflation remains high at 11.2% annually; and the recession that began in 1981 shows every sign of deepening. To combat these problems, Fraser appeared two weeks ago in the town hall of Malvern, a cozy suburb of Melbourne, to promise more jobs for the young, more money for education, and tax cuts for small companies. On the following day, Hawke took over the floodlit stage of the Sydney Opera House's theater and, before an overflowing audience, fleshed out an ambitious $2.65 billion economic program...
...spent 17 years in the office of one shrink or another, trying to come to terms with a childhood that was more than unhappy. His father was a railway electrician, his mother was a shorthand typist, and he grew up in a poor, row-house neighborhood in the London suburb of Dagenham. But poverty was not the problem: it was a clubfoot and a skinny, slightly shorter left leg, which sent him in and out of hospitals from the age of two weeks on. "Psychologically it was made harrowing by the fact that my parents felt guilty about...