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...certainly be no need for a referendum to end the hostage problem. It will be solved much sooner than your question implies. My policy on the hostages embodies an important principle accepted by a growing majority of Iranians: while we must sustain our revolutionary dedication, we cannot afford to bend to street frenzy any more. Frankly, a resolution of the hostage problem is imperative within two months. Despite vexing snags that we could do without, I expect the problem to be resolved in two months or so, shortly after the parliament meets...
...reports on would-be redeemers, partly sources for settings and personality traits that Naipaul later used in his novels. Zaire's Mobutu, with his brew of futurism and ancestor worship, is clearly the model for the remote leader of the Central African nation described in A Bend in the River (1979). The confused longings and demagogy of Michael de Freitas, a Trinidadian cult leader who was hanged for murder in 1975, are reflected in Guerrillas (1975). There are touches of pathos in the studiously detached account of De Freitas' career as a contemporary Emperor Jones. The problems...
...wage-price freeze would be difficult to administer, as firms and individuals seek to bend the rules. Thus new labor contracts will raise non-cash benefits, suppliers will demand cash prepayment, and unrecorded payments for goods or to workers will rise...
Carville sprawls across 336 peaceful acres along a bend in the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, functioning more as a self-contained community than a hospital. Though much has changed since the night in 1894 when a group of crafty sisters of charity used a barge to smuggle seven leprosy patients up river from New Orleans while telling suspicious residents of the nearby town they planned to establish an ostrich farm on the abandoned Indian Camp Plantation grounds, Carville still contains enough of a "leper colony" aura to frighten the most stoic newcomer...
...Pink Floyd album The Wall [Feb. 25] is a statement of how hard it is to be an artist in the face of overwhelming criticism. The world wants to bend you into its mold, and if you're a nonconformist, people force you to build a wall to protect your identity, your inner being. No one wants to have to build the wall...