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...that "many experts believe that Carter's zigzagging policy has confused, irritated and at times infuriated the Soviets," consequently contributing to, even promoting, the Afghanistan invasion. Is it fair to blame the bearer of the olive branch for the escalation of conflicts around the world? The mistake, the act, the crime is the Soviets' aggression...
While Louise is given to poignant reflections, her constant visitor, Nora, is a bearer of upside-down cake and earthy common sense. They are bound together by unutterable aloneness, and they summon up the apparitions with a brief incantation about eternally unresting souls in order to have someone further to talk to. But after the apparitions have told their sad stories, the widows are chilled through their bones...
August 30: The Republican Convention finally breaks its deadlock, and nominates Ronald Reagan. Reagan, in the excitement of the moment, suffers a fatal heart attack. Unwilling to deliberate further, and ignoring Constitutional provisions barring his election to a third term, the exhausted Convention selects Richard Nixon as its standard bearer. Not to be outdone by Carter, Nixon chooses the Dalai Lama as his running mate, saying that he hopes having an incarnate Buddha on the ticket will "allow the Republican Party to escape the wheel of death and rebirth...
...beer have joined the list of potables that may contain dangerous chemicals. So has mother's milk, in which PCBS have turned up. Birth defects could be linked to caffeine from coffee or any source, it was reported just last month. Even peanut butter, as an occasional bearer of aflatoxin, has been flagged as a menace. Driving? Fasten the seat belt- unless discouraged by warnings that most of them do not work. On the road, even rest-room signs often gratuitously warn against VD. Flying? Remember that some pas sengers get ozone poisoning in those high-altitude supersonic jets...
...implied that there were two other CIA operatives on the embassy staff who were not named. In addition, the students displayed a faked Belgian passport and detailed instructions on how it was to be used with a set of forged immigration stamps to give the appearance that the passport bearer had gone in and out of Iran. The militants said the faked passport belonged to a hostage named Thomas Ahern Jr., who they said was the embassy's narcotics-control officer...