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Indeed, Soviet patience seems to be wearing steadily thinner. Official press organs throughout the East bloc were continuing their attacks on Polish unions and dissidents. The Soviet news agency TASS charged last week that "counterrevolutionary forces" in Poland had launched a "frontal attack" on the Communist Party. Soviet diplomats in Western Europe have been circulating the same message in their private conversations. Said one senior official at the Soviet embassy in Bonn: "The point has been reached when it is a waste of time to negotiate [with Solidarity]. It's time to get tough...
...written a TIME cover story on the group the year before, was again struck by Lennon's patience and courtesy. Three years later, Porterfield sat in Apple's London headquarters listening to Lennon speak with bitterness about the breakup of the Beatles. Says he: "John was thinner than the last time I had seen him and his appearance gave an extra intensity to the harshness of what he was saying. He was understandably preoccupied with pain and frustration, but there was also a great deal of determination and optimism...
Both the ideas and the constituencies of the Democratic Party have grown thinner, partly because of the party's own past successes. Now, more have-nots have. Blue-collar workers, who were once a strong and reliable phalanx of Democratic power, have joined the middle class; in straitened times, an era of limits, they see Big Government not as a source of protection, as before, but as a vast bureaucracy, the big spenders installed by Democrats, extorting their tax dollars. They rebel against welfare. If the economic pie will not expand, then a certain amount of the emotional generosity...
...Birmingham, Mich., has been a Tiger loyalist for as long as he can remember. "I stood by them while they were really pathetic," he said, referring to the gory years of the early 70s. But this year, maybe because they seemed so close, his patience is running thinner than a French milkshake...
...Yale experiment, described by Biologist Francis Ruddle at an international conference on cell biology in West Berlin, he and Colleagues Jon Gordon and George Scangos isolated genes from two viruses and manufactured them in large quantities. Then, guided by a high-powered microscope and using tubes thinner than hairs, they delicately microinjected 1,000 to 20,000 copies of the genetic material directly into the nuclei of newly fertilized mouse eggs kept alive in laboratory dishes. The eggs were then carefully transferred to the wombs of female mice and eventually the foster mothers gave birth to 150 infants. The newborns...