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...Alice Cooper! Don't you read T shirts?" Guess what? Travis becomes a roadie superstar and deposits Lola with Alice himself. But she follows the course of true love into the front seat of Travis' pickup truck-just as the spaceship from Close Encounters alights with a request for Travis to perform a quick lube...
...Administration was also concerned over congressional resistance to a request by Saudi Arabia to purchase additional equipment for its 60 American-built F-15 fighter-bombers. With the new equipment, which includes extra fuel tanks, bomb racks and missiles, the planes would have both the range and ground-attack potential to pose a threat to Israel. For the moment, the Administration was keeping an open mind on the question, while noting that Saudi Arabia's security needs have increased with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...fact produced a kind of schizophrenia of the profession itself. As Bukovsky points out: "It is not easy for the ordinary person to get admitted for treatment in a psychiatric hospital. For a political case, though, it is very easy. They are taken to a hospital without making any request...
...even more serious question, in Mills' opinion, is what the Justice Department plans to do about people who request alternate service or declare that they are "conscientious objectors." The bill the Senate is considering includes an amendment introduced by Hatfield, asking registrants to indicate whether they will seek conscientious objector status, and even SSS studies indicate that such figures could be high...
...national leadership had better answer this "why?" before it repeats its request for people to reduce their standard of living. Sacrifice is an emotional thing--people won't do it unless their hearts are in it and they can see everyone is sharing the burden. Drivers won't want to pay huge gas taxes when they read about the obscene end-of-year oil company profit figures that helped double the price of gas in the first place. The poor will hardly understand the need for them to sacrifice the programs that keep them above the poverty line when they...