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...area of the world is more torn by strife, more poisoned by age-old hatreds, more strewn with the seeds of potential superpower conflict than the Middle East. And yet nowhere are there brighter chances for creative U.S. diplomacy to put an end to incessant bloodshed and lead the way to peace. The greatest opportunity of all has arisen, paradoxically, from the death and destruction of the war in Lebanon, which has upset political allegiances and power structures. Last week President Ronald Reagan launched a bold and ambitious initiative to seize the historic moment...
Beckman said she became interested in making the age-old swim from England to France after helping to train another swimmer for the challenge last year. When that woman broke a foot and called off the swim. Beckman decided to give it a try for herself and applied to the Channel Swimming Association for a swim...
...billions of dollars worth of social programs to alleviate suffering and give deprived groups a chance for betterment dramatizes the government slack of interest in making America a land of opportunity for those who most need it. The cuts and impending cuts in educational aid have turned the age-old ideal of economic betterment and class mobility into a wisp of myth...
...computer craze is simply an expression of the layman's fascination for gadgetry and the age-old hope for an easy way out in thinking and doing...
...successful vaccine would finally put an end to the age-old taint that lepers bear. Even today, patients, though treated and no longer contagious, carry the onus. "I feel ashamed," says Leni Ignosta, 20, a Los Angeles welder who contracted leprosy five years ago in Samoa before moving to the U.S. "I don't want anybody to know I have it, not even my family. I wanted to stay in the U.S., but I think I'll go back to Samoa and live by myself...