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...never been firm. Until it was repealed last July, the 1976 Clark Amendment banned any American assistance for his forces. Even today the Administration's position is equivocal. After Reagan's half-hour meeting with Savimbi, the President said that he wanted "to be very helpful" but did not commit himself to a specific offer of aid. For his part, Shultz noted the difficulty of devising a formula for Angola that would be "effective." Nonetheless, word leaked out last week that the Administration was prepared to send covert aid to Savimbi. Various Congressmen have also proposed several UNITA aid bills...
...Vincent and thousands of other Americans are benefiting from an ingenious union of computer and video technology that enables clients and customers to see how they will look with reshaped features, restyled cosmetics, the latest suit or a new head of hair--all before they commit their flesh to the scalpel or their cash to a purchase. The new systems are easing the qualms of prospective cosmetic-surgery patients, making life easier for their doctors and boosting sales in department stores nationwide...
Habash also refused to commit his Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to Khadafy's proposed campaign of violence, the sources added, and Ahmed Jebril, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, "showed little enthusiasm...
...graver concern, he insisted, was the U.S. challenge. "There is only one pressure," he said. "That is the military, political and economic pressure of the United States." The Nicaraguan people, he added, "see the U.S.-sponsored counterrevolution destroy the schools, health centers, cooperatives. This causes people to commit themselves more readily to the patriotic military service." The "so-called Third World countries," he continued, must also worry. "If the U.S. invades Nicaragua," he said, "then this endangers the security of all developing countries...
...chooses the death penalty. Bad move, as the seer Tiresias tells Creon, because decreeing the death penalty gets one prematurely sent to to Hades. Acting like a god isn't advisable in Greek drama, and in the end Creon pays for it. His son and wife both commit suicide...