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...White, found that 11% of U.S. adults admit having sampled cocaine, and one in four says that "someone close to me has tried it." Cocaine in the early 1980s has become a democratic craze instead of a high-society toot. Indeed, it is like the once exclusive vacation resort that the masses discover after its founding trendies have moved on: today, just as a lot of cosmopolites on both coasts are souring on cocaine, the drug is pushing its roots wider and deeper into America's social strata. Peter Bensinger, director of the Drug Enforcement Administration from...
...Eban places the recent events within a broader historical context. He points out that his own Labor Party has never endorsed pacifism, which could, in the turbulent Middle East, amount to suicide. But, he maintains, his party has always believed that war should be "a last, reluctant resort," to be pursued only with limited aims and limited forces. By comparison, the "Zionist Revisionist movement," from which Prime Minister Menachem Begin's Likud government was born, has always given "war a larger place." With their "mystique of heroism . . . martial songs, uniforms, parades and unofficial armies," Eban writes, the Revisionists, even...
...isolationist Albania. The moderates argued that France must stay in the European Monetary System (E.M.S.), which requires every member to maintain the value of its currency within a narrow range against the others, even at the cost of domestic sacrifice. The "Albanians" urged Mitterrand to bolt the E.M.S. and resort to protectionism...
...Scotland and The Netherlands, was designed only for the use of hopelessly sick people, with the express purpose of reducing, as the British guide puts it, "the incidence of unsuccessful attempts." A Guide to Self-Deliverance is heart-wrenching reading. The manual stresses that suicide should be a last resort for those in intractable pain. It then offers the exact doses of drugs that will ensure death. The manual recommends that the drugs be used in combination with other methods, such as plastic garbage bags and auto exhaust. If the prescriptions are carefully followed, the end will presumably be painless...
...foreign suppliers to meet additional needs. Most countries first turn to such non-OPEC suppliers as Mexico, Norway, and even the Soviet Union, either because of consideration relating to price or security of supply or both. Only then do buyers finally turn to OPEC as the supplier of last resort. Conversely as oil demand begins to decline, OPEC oil is the first to be dropped. In short, a small increase in world energy demand results in a disproportionately large percentage increase demand for OPEC oil. And a small decrease in world energy demand results in a disproportionately large percentage decrease...