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...actuarial tables. Andropov's heirs found themselves in a dilemma that underscores the irony of the Soviet Union's youthfulness as a state (a mere 61-six years younger than the average age of the Politburo members) and the falsity of its claims to represent the wave of the future...
That moderation, however, is increasingly endangered by a wave of religious fundamentalism washing through the Shi'ite community. In June of 1982, an aide to Berri, Hussein Musawi, broke away to form a radical splinter group, the Islamic Amal. Musawi has since forged close links with Islamic Jihad, the Muslim extremist group that claimed responsibility for the attacks on the U.S. and French compounds last October, and the murder of Beirut's American University President Malcolm Kerr last month. Within the mainstream Amal, young Shi'ites have attacked occupying Israeli troops in southern Lebanon with the encouragement...
Among the population as a whole, Reagan is riding a wave of good feeling. More people (68%) say things are going well in the country than in any other period since 1977. At the same time, however, only 36% say they have a "lot" of confidence in future prosperity. Interestingly, the percentage citing excessive Government spending as their No. 1 concern rose from 6% to 14%. The only consolation for Reagan is that voters are even less sanguine about the Democrats' ability to cut the $183.7 billion deficit...
Such moves have outraged many in a nation in which economic discontent has already spawned a wave of protests. Declares one disgruntled depositor: "I will keep large amounts of cash on hand and will pay all my bills in cash." Others have been lining up to open accounts at hitherto little-used post-office banks, where services are limited but attractively free of charge...
What is so tragic about Means's campaign is that be sees no hope in anything but separation. The few services still offered by the government will be jeopardized when a tidal wave of $180 billion in red ink rolls into Congress is spring. And the current Administration seems to have no concern for protecting the landscape from developers. The end result of such a tragedy can only be polarization, annihilation, and despair...