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Your article on the attack at the Golden Temple painted a gruesome picture of the plight of Sikhs and other minorities in India. With its poverty-stricken masses, India will disintegrate within the next ten to 15 years. There is no central figure after Indira Gandhi to keep that country together. The uprising of the Sikhs is just the beginning of the end of "united" India...
...Grief-stricken, Simenon felt an understandable need to make sense out of Marie-Jo's suicide. He began a journal, addressed to his sons and particularly to his late daughter. His first entry assures her: "This book will be not mine but yours." Not true. As it took voluminous shape day after day, Intimate Memoirs be came exclusively Simenon's, his rambling attempt to prove, as he assures the dead Marie-Jo, that "I have nothing to apologize...
...clarify complex relationships among ideas and to weave of his various strands a single tapestry. The tree of the first "knee play" is transformed into the astronauts' ladder and finally into the oaken Lincoln of the last act. The detritus of war - the toppling bodies of mortally stricken soldiers, the bombed-out city of Cologne - is swept away by the final "knee play" as a new tree grows from the pages of a book. Wilson's dream world is informed by the perspective of the hypnagogic state: the sleep of reason may produce monsters, as Goya thought...
...Easter recess, the African famine-relief bill, which was passed by the House with no funds for the contras, will go to a House-Senate conference to have differences reconciled. Leaders of the Democratic-controlled House have instructed their conferees to demand that all money for the contras be stricken from the bill, and they will have some Republican support. The mining, says Silvio Conte of Massachusetts, ranking G.O.R member on the House Appropriations Committee, is a "stupid, stupid thing." On the more general subject of aid to the contras, he vows, "They're not going to get a nickel...
...streets, in Longwy 15,000, in Metz 20,000. In a dramatic climax to nearly a week of unrest, the entire region was delivering an ultimatum to President François Mitterrand: repeal a draconian restructuring plan, announced two weeks ago, that would eliminate 25,000 of the stricken steel industry's 90,000 jobs...