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...runner's safe he spreads his arms so far apart that they force his nose into the dirt. Often a manager comes charging out of the dugout to disagree with him, and he meets the guy halfway, to hold a parley with him at the top of his vocal cords until, finally fed up, he jerks out the big thumb to say, "You're outta here...
...debate over U.S. policy in El Salvador has intensified, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops has emerged as a highly vocal opponent of the Reagan Administration's position. The American bishops are against all forms of military aid to El Salvador and favor a negotiated settlement between that country's ruling junta and its left-wing guerrillas...
This abdication created a huge vacuum in the entire debate over the war. The result was that the so-called peace movement came to be driven by a relatively tiny group of radicals, whose public support was insignificant. To that most vocal hard core of dissenters, the issue was not the wisdom of a particular American commitment but the validity of American foreign policy in general and indeed of American society. They saw the war as a symptom of an evil, corrupt, militaristic capitalist system. They treated the Viet Cong as a progressive movement, North Viet...
...high drama or for that matter for good singing or dancing. With the exception of Ken Hodder as the professor whose underwear must be too tight and Greg Martin, as the future real estate tycoon, this cast would get cut from most House productions. Several of the solo vocal numbers simply embarrass the audience as well as the performers. Actors (23 of em shuffle, awkwardly in huge packs on and off the stage toting Peanuts-style two-dimensional trees for the nature scenes and a dissipated desk and chair, which indicate action indoors. Dialogue drones endlessly, and the only truly...
Mugabe said ominously that "the law will now take its course" against Nkomo and dismissed three other key ZAPU party members, though he stopped short of firing four others. The apparent attempt to confine the sackings to a few ZAPU leaders for the moment undercut increasingly vocal complaints from opposition critics, especially among Zimbabwe's 210,000 whites, that Mugabe is moving to establish a one-party state...