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...nothing, since instructors and graduate students from writing labs are regularly assigned to phone duty, and the callers pay for their own calls. But at Emporia the service is costing the English department roughly an extra $100 per month, because the university pays for calls made to its toll free number from anywhere in the state of Kansas...
There is no doubt that Former Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco is correct in his assessment that we are struggling through our Viet Nam guilt feelings and that the catharsis has taken its toll. Carter is a product of it. He began by rejecting many tokens of power and imperialism, even down to the way he dressed and spoke. His strategic sense, to the extent that anyone could figure it out, was to encourage a human rights campaign that would hold the perimeter of freedom even in the absence of a big Navy and an effective covert capacity...
Frequent purges and the faltering economy took a heavy toll on barracks morale, and last year several of Big Daddy's military units mutinied. Seeking to give his men something to cheer about, Amin decided to make good on an old boast that he would seize a patch of frontier territory in Tanzania that he insisted belonged to Uganda. By year's end, Tanzania's Nyerere had decided to pay Amin back in kind. His invasion force, small but well enough supplied with missiles that it was able to shoot down most of Uganda...
...chaos, as the forces united around Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini last week showed the first dread signs of schism. Suddenly, guns were everywhere, in every hand, as self-styled "freedom fighters" liberated weapons from police stations and army barracks. In Tehran, Tabriz and other cities, sporadic fighting raised the death toll for the week to an estimated 1,500. A bewildering motley of forces was involved: troops loyal to the Shah, ethnic separatists, mojahedeen (literally crusaders) who backed the new government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, and, ominously, Marxist fedayeen (sacrificers) who felt that the revolution had not moved far enough...
...minimalism−a style made up of simple, primary, uninflected forms, usually garnished with tangled masses of oversubtilized criticism. Less, these days, does not seem to be more, especially when the work in question is yet another empty grid by Sol LeWitt, or something like Richard Serra's Toll, 1978-79−three walls of a gallery enclosure painted dead, oily black. In the past, some of Serra's sculptures have been memorable, their slabs and rolls of lead or iron imbued with a harshly macho directness. Compared with them, Toll is merely a shrug of indifference. What...