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Then one gunman jumped onto the trunk and fired several rounds into the upper edge of the rear window. A single bullet ripped through the rubber and thin-metal frame holding the window in place, striking the head of American Leamon R. Hunt, 56, director general of the Multi-National Force and Observers in the Sinai. Hunt died within minutes of his arrival at Rome's San Giovanni hospital...
...winning substantial bipartisan support from his commission for a program that the Great Communicator has been unable to sell to a skeptical Congress and nation. The commission, composed of Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, displayed enough independence to avoid any imputation that it had acted as a rubber stamp. The Democrats, led by AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, successfully insisted on some language that troubled both Reagan and Kissinger. Yet in the main they assented to proposals that one State Department official accurately described as "by and large, an endorsement of what Administration policy...
Birth control was so rudimentary that pregnancies came annually. They were both painful (until chloroform appeared in 1847) and dangerous (childbed fever was not solved until the 1850s), but Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber in 1839 and soon thereafter got his first patents on birth control devices. More than a century before the famous Pill, the sexual revolution inspired by contraception was under way. The cultural leaders preached against birth control, even prosecuted its advocates, but that only spread the news. Contraceptive devices sounded "perfectly revolting," as one California matron wrote to a friend, but "one must face anything rather than...
Other unions in such industries as automobiles, steel, rubber, mining and trucking are also taking a pounding. Their bargaining strength has been blunted, master contracts broken, picket lines crossed. Today union workers are often confronted with a no-win ultimatum: accept a pay cut or lose your jobs. Unemployment in these industries is high because of intense competition and slow growth. Even though the economy is now generally expanding at a robust pace, unions have not regained their former bargaining muscle...
...organic center does not exist, what is to be done? The American answer seems to be: build a synthetic one. The can-do country (its creations include synthetic rubber, artificial flavors and plastic hearts) has come up with a substitute: ad hoc centrism. The mechanism is government-by-commission, and unlike the "commission on the future" of years past, today's commission is not meaningless, temporary employment for eminent and idle statesmen. It is an essential political instrument for improvising a center. And it is the political story...