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...This is the crux of the problem, the trauma, the pain. What do you think will be our position if there is a white exodus from Zimbabwe, which is not out of the question, and those people tell the public in South Africa and in Namibia what happened to them? That's why I have said that events in Zimbabwe constitute perhaps the single most important obstacle [to a settlement...
...which Sadat was killed. The lavish celebrations Sadat had planned to commemorate the return of the Sinai are also being scaled down. As Mubarak prepared for his first visit as President to the U.S. this week, he left behind a nation unmistakably on the mend from the trauma of Sadat's assassination...
...Curse of an Aching Heart") is a parade of idiosyncratic young men and irate foreign neighbors, and the ups and downs of a love affair with a smooth young Irishman named Lugs (Terrance O'Quinn), whom Fran eventually marries. Continuity is a hard-boiled, comical best friend. "The trauma of growing up" is Jo-Jo, but the intervening years thus stylized, far from framing the slow growth of a conflict, become a string of unrelated heartaches. Fran occasionally mentions Jo-Jo's name, but between Act II's kiss and Act V's final reconciliation, Alfred seems almost to forget...
...school in Merced, Calif., Steven Stayner, 14, suddenly reappeared. He told police that he had been held in a remote cabin by Kenneth Parnell for what amounted to half his lifetime.* The youngster was joyously reunited with his family, but as soon as his return was reported, a second trauma began. Within days, more than two dozen people called or turned up at the Stayner home, checks in hand, to buy rights to his unique story. Bewildered, the family turned to their attorney. He was unfamiliar with the new problems they faced, but he was able to recommend just...
...trauma may grow much worse. The Commerce Department reported last week that its index of leading economic indicators, which predicts future business trends, fell a steep 1.8% in October. Most forecasters, including Murray Weidenbaum, President Reagan's chief economic adviser, believe that unemployment will rise to about 9% before it eases next year, when business picks up again. That would equal the postwar record high set during the severe 1973-75 recession...