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Christopher C. DeMuth '68, lecturer in Public Policy. DeMuth, a former president of the Ripon Society, waited in vain all spring to find out if he would be nominated to head the Environmental Protection Agency. He wasn't, although he had been a leading contender for hte post. But his critical outlook toward regulations ultimately earned him a position in the Office of Management and Budget, the mileu of chief budget-slasher--and an old DeMuth associate--David Stockman...
...government quarters, there now are voices advocating complete destruction of the P.L.O. Nor is there much flexibility among the Palestinians. Arafat and moderates in the P.L.O. acknowledge that Israel is there to stay, but recognition will only be the ultimate step. "I am not giving away my cards in vain, for nothing," he said in a recent interview. "I know I have a little card, but it is the most precious card in the play, the trump card...
...that dashed off vitriolic criticism to academics became compassionate when everyday folk asked for spiritual advice. To a German prisoner contemplating suicide: "Regarding your prayers. How do you know they are in vain? God has his own time, and he may well know the right moment to lift the double shadow that now lies over your life...
...bright summer day, when suddenly all of Beirut shook with the roar of bombers and the thunder of antiaircraft artillery. Small puffs of white smoke began to dot the sky as local militia groups fired in vain at the screaming jets. When the fury of the attack finally ended, two hours later, at least 200 people were dead and 600 injured, victims of the first Israeli air raid against the Lebanese capital since 1978. The target of the jets: specific Palestinian offices within the city...
George Clements, 49, pastor of Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church on Chicago's South Side, formally adopted Joey, 13, a boy abandoned since infancy. The move has been in the making since last November when Clements tried in vain to get his parishioners to take in black children, whose adoption rate lags behind that of whites. The priest, an activist who once served as a Black Panthers chaplain, went before his congregation one Sunday and announced from the altar: "All right, if you won't adopt, then I will." Though the Catholic archdiocese was cool to the proposed...