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...hulk, Gimbel and Diver Ted Hess cut a hole in a duct and pushed down past three decks to the generator room, squeezing through silt and broken steel plates until, astonished, they found themselves on the sea floor. The icebreaker bow of the Stockholm, Gimbel concluded, had simply "torn the guts out of the Doria" Several days later, expedition members, suffering from colds and ear infections, voted to quit while they were ahead...
With its disregard for minorities, the administration's assault on labor will boomerang, showing the folly of pouring dollars into defense while wounding the country to be defended. By next summer, cities may be torn asunder with riots reminiscent of this summer's events in Britain and all areas of the economy will be riven with strikes. The positive public reaction to Reagan's handling of the controller strike is instructive. Flexing of pectorals is appealing until one becomes muscle-bound. But more than anything, the air traffic situation throws into sharp relief the importance of the right to strike...
...There is a parking lot there now, and two houses beside it have also been turned into asphalt. Most people drive to Atlantic City, and parking spaces near the Boardwalk, where the Montpelier is, are at a premium. A fourth house, now empty, will soon be torn down too. The woman who owns it was offered $300,000 last year, Shuster observes, but held out for $325,000. After she closed up last winter, someone broke in and ripped out all her plumbing; rather than replace it, she gave up and sold for $225,000, which was all the speculator...
...Mary Oda, 61, now a San Fernando physician, was torn away from her first year at medical school. In the Manzanar, Calif., camp, dust whirled through gaps in the floor boards; nine people shared one cramped room, sleeping on bags filled with straw. Her family lost their farm, their equipment and one another. "We became separated during the evacuation and we never lived together as a family again...
Israel is beset by devastating economic, political and military problems. Inflation is running at 120%; emigration still exceeds immigration. The country recently endured a fusillade of criticism over its bombing of civilian areas in Lebanon. Its leadership is deeply torn over how to come to terms with Israel's Arab neighbors. Yet these crucial matters scarcely figured in the negotiations between Begin and his partners: the National Religious Party, with six members of the Knesset; the ultraconservative Agudat Israel, with four; and the newly organized TAMI, with three. Last week the coalition released an agreement, a sort of party...