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...debate raged, about 7,000 Falashas remained stranded in refugee camps in Sudan. Perhaps as many as 10,000 are still in Ethiopia. Anguished newcomers to the Israeli absorption centers, struggling to regain their health and adapt to the many confusing aspects of their new life, wait for word of those left behind. Last week they publicized their dismay at the disclosure of Operation Moses by praying for their relatives at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and staging a sit-in on the lawn of the Jewish Agency, the quasigovernmental body that oversees immigration. Said Baruch Tanga, a Falasha activist...
Further complicating the equation are domestic political perceptions. Seeking the White House in 1980, Ronald Reagan warned of a "widening gap" being opened by the Soviets in the nuclear competition and vowed that he would help the U.S. regain a "superior defensive capability." After taking office, he declared flatly that "on balance the Soviet Union does have a definite margin of superiority." Nearing the end of his first four years, Reagan told the United Nations, "America has repaired its strength...
...think this shows we're much better than anything we've shown so far," added senior Co-Captain Bob Eerry, who continues to regain the outstanding touch that seemed to chide him during the second half of last year...
...Harvard is concerned with discouraging expensive procedures with relatively few real benefits, it should take its own advice and regain its national prominence by boasting the number of lives it saves using reasonable medical practices rather than by advertising advances in the esoteric transplant field. Only then will this country realize the wastefulness of expensive operations performed in profit-and publicity-seeking hospitals...
That will happen only if consumers regain the urge to splurge. The latest Commerce Department figures show that retail sales slipped slightly in October. R.H. Macy, the department-store company, reported last week that its profits fell 27% in the three months ending in October, but said that sales picked up in the first days after Thanksgiving, the traditional start of the all important Christmas shopping season. Several other retail chains, including Dayton-Hudson and K mart, are also reporting brisk holiday business. Concludes Robert Ortner, chief economist of the Commerce Department: "The odds still favor a very good Christmas...