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These days, Allen Ginsberg meets up with many people who think the Beat Generation consisted entirely of Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and a few zany sycophants who followed them around America's weird roads raising hell, writing poems and novels, drinking beer smoking weed and worse...
...congressional critics, Weinberger and the Pentagon are simply intent on buying every weapon the generals and admirals put on their wish lists, without any overall strategic design or much attempt to weed out those systems that prove ineffective or excessively costly. In a study submitted to Republican congressional leaders last week, a group of G.O.P. lawmakers led by Senators Charles Grassley of Iowa and Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas contended in effect that much of the roughly $1 trillion spent on defense in the past four years had disappeared into what Grassley called a "bottomless pit" of Pentagon waste...
...people eager for Western-style prosperity. His policies, aimed at transforming a centrally planned economy into one that is more market-oriented, have not been greeted with approval by hard-liners among party and army officials, who suspect their positions are eroding. Deng is moving, cautiously but firmly, to weed out some of his stauncher critics: only two weeks ago, 40 senior military officers were forced into retirement. "I am afraid that some of our old comrades have this fear: after a generation of socialism and Communism, it is unacceptable to spout some capitalism," said Deng in a speech published...
...right. Both operations ran up tabs of well over $100,000--money which could have been used to save 20 times as many fatally diseased patients with considerably more success. In addition, the traditional checks and balances in the medical profession--which do not include government interference--would usually weed out such hopeless operations as the one performed on Baby Fae. But the Loma Linda Hospital published no information, and consequently violated the code of ethics which keeps American medicine so respectable...
...organized labor that the shifts in the U.S. economy-away from heavy manufacturing toward high-technology and service industries-need not be antithetical to workers' long-run interests. "Labor has a massive job of self-education to do," says Iowa Party Chairman David Nagle. "Labor will have to weed its own garden...