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...tough language about American intentions in the Persian Gulf was deliberate, not to define a battleground but to send a message that this is not going to be a transient attitude. "The U.S. has a broad strategic group of forces," says Carter. Thus he carefully chose and used two words in last week's news conference-"tactics" and "terrain." The U.S., he said, would not allow the Soviets to choose either in any confrontation. Translated, that means that an American response to new aggression might come any place in the world where Soviet interests are handicapped by narrow waterways...
Purists of the Olympics argue a bit romantically that the Games must be above politics, that regimes and secular squabbles come and go, that political issues are always transient, that the Olympic spirit is transcendent. That is what Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the Panglossian founder of the modern Olympics intended. During the twelve centuries of the ancient Games, warring states and tribes suspended their homicidal business every four years and flocked to the sweet valley beyond Mount Kromion to compete for crowns of wild olive. Now, some athletes complain, a reverse logic applies; the Games get suspended at the first...
Neither burning out nor fading away, Young is pausing to add an embellishing brush stroke to the picture of his musical career thus far. He seems confident that he can carry on, writing the songs he believes in, ignoring the births and deaths of transient musical fads...
What caused the attacks? A growing number of cardiac specialists now agree on the probable villain in these and thousands of other heart attacks: coronary artery spasm, a sudden and transient constriction of a blood vessel. Lasting from 30 seconds to many minutes, the spasm effectively blocks a vessel and keeps oxygen from reaching the heart...
...editors at the White House. Asked about the significance of polls on presidential popularity, he replied: "I think we have got a superb record . . . of course, your own character assessment, the reputation you have for being steady in an emergency . . . these things become much more important than the relatively transient public opinion polls...