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...Vietnamese. With no retreat possible, Carpenter called down an air strike on his own position. "We might as well take some of them with us," he radioed to his battalion command post. The napalm attack injured seven of Carpenter's men, yet enabled the unit to consolidate and later withdraw. Already well known as the "Lonesome End" and captain of Army's 1959 football team, "Napalm Bill" Carpenter won a Distinguished Service Cross for his actions. Carpenter, 47, stayed in the Army; last December he was promoted to major general and put in command of a newly organized light infantry...
...last week more than two dozen Ohio thrifts had reopened, backed now by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, a federal agency that guarantees deposits up to $100,000. The remaining privately insured S and Ls were allowing customers to withdraw up to $750. Depositors said they had confidence in their thrifts, and there was little sense of panic. Nonetheless, at least 200 jittery customers lined up to make withdrawals last Thursday from Cincinnati's Oakmont Savings and Loan, where there had been reports that some of the thrift's officers had illegally taken money from their accounts...
Advice to the Players, by Bruce Bonafede, is based on an actual dilemma that confronted two black South African actors several years ago in Baltimore: ordered by a revolutionary organization in their home country to withdraw from a U.S. drama festival as a protest against their government, they had to choose between the punitive wrath of South African officials and the equally ruinous ostracization by their peers. Bonafede's narrative does little more than state the problem with heartbreaking clarity. But his crisp, clever dialogue, enhanced by the enchanting performances of Tom Wright and Delroy Lindo, brings...
...that he is optimistic. He concludes after a 1983 visit to the region that the Arab states are as unwilling as ever to "give clear and official recognition" to Israel's right to exist within secure borders, while the Israelis are just as reluctant to withdraw from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and grant self-determination to the Palestinians. He compares the relatively moderate views of many West Bank Palestinians with the overheated and unrealistic rhetoric of some Palestine Liberation Organization officials, who in conversation "rarely mentioned the plight of their brothers in the West Bank and Gaza...
...that fail to qualify for U.S. protection within 120 days will probably be merged with stronger financial institutions. Those unable to find partners are likely to be liquidated by state regulators to pay off depositors. Meanwhile, even thrifts that do not yet qualify for U.S. insurance can let depositors withdraw up to $750 a month...