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Bernstein juggled a scotch on the rocks, a tin of imported cigarettes and a ream of papers. Throughout the night each one of those distractions competed for the great maestro's attention. With 70 "student leaders" in attendance, hung over and left over from the Memorial Hall dinner where Bernstein was supposed to give his speech, he told of "the Enemy" that people create to give life a clearer purpose. As a country, we force the Soviet Union into that role, Bernstein argued--putting down the scotch on the rocks and spraying ashes on the Junior Common Room carpet--just...
...dressed in a threadbare overcoat and a small boy in rags stand in a sewage-clogged shantytown street just outside Luanda. The man has no right leg, the boy no left. As the boy hammers out a rhythm with a stick on a battered tin can, the man begins to swing his shortened limb in time to the beat. Others join in. Some waggle truncated arms, others hop on withered stumps. Soon nearly 100 cripples are shaking their mutilated bodies to the beat of the weird tin drum...
...Alexandria summit was the twelfth meeting between the leaders of Israel and Egypt since 1977, but only the first since 1981. The talks took place in the beige, horseshoe-shaped Ras el Tin Palace, once the summer residence of King Farouk, Egypt's last monarch, and now used by the government for official purposes...
...recent years, the twin pillars of the Bolivian economy have been cocaine and tin. The illicit cocaine trade was jolted in July, when President Victor Paz Estenssoro heeded a Washington request and invited U.S. troops to participate in raids on Bolivian drug labs. Now Paz Estenssoro faces a crisis over tin. When more than 5,000 miners marched toward the capital city of La Paz last week to protest present layoffs and future mine closings, Paz Estenssoro responded by declaring a state of siege. Bolivian soldiers promptly halted the advance. Meanwhile, police arrested at least 162 persons, including labor leaders...
...firing of 7,000 miners and the proposed pit closings were part of a desperate government plan to rescue Bolivia's tin industry. Collapsing prices have plunged the country's 21 nationalized mines deep into the red. Paz Estenssoro wants to shut two of the mines and lease most of the rest to worker-run cooperatives. The moves could cost an additional 8,000 jobs...