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...HORRIBLE MENTAL DISORDER," "a satanic deviance," and "an unspeakable evil." For much of American history the lifestyles of one-tenth of our population were thus fallaciously maligned. During the last 15 years American homosexuals "coming out of the closet" have finally gained a handful of civil rights, putting them well on their way to legal equality. But recent chilling developments threaten both these hard-won gains and a far more basic right--life itself...
...likely to forget about letters, memos or grocery lists that they have jotted down; it takes someone a little unusual to lose all recollection of having written a book. That is what happened to Author Graham Greene, 80, who learned in 1983 that something of his called The Tenth Man had been unearthed from the archives of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He remembered working under contract to MGM back in 1944 and thought he might have written a brief scenario of a story that could, conceivably, have borne that title. But when the discovered typescript was sent to him, as Greene...
...Greene's constant readers will disagree. The Tenth Man offers, in small compass, the narrative combination that eventually became recognized as the author's trademark; it is a smoothly plotted psychological thriller in which the hero must struggle not only for his life but for his soul...
Even though Kinnock later accepted her explanation, the vitriolic Commons exchange was a bitter pill for Thatcher at a time when she should have been happily celebrating her tenth anniversary as Conservative Party leader. To add to her troubles, Britain's eleven-month-old coal miners' strike dragged on, even as a major poll put the Labor Party neck and neck with the Conservatives at 37%, an 8-point drop for the Tories in the 20 months since the last general election...
...does Congress treat the dairy support system like a sacred cow? The main reason is the strong dairy lobby: the Associated Milk Producers PAC was the tenth-largest campaign contributor to Congressmen in 1984. Yet, despite this clout, most dairy farmers realize that some reforms are inevitable. "We want to be less dependent on subsidies," says James Jarvis, a small dairy farmer in Wautoma, Wis. "But we can't be cut off cold turkey. We've got to be let down slow...