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Democrats readily accepted the challenge. The party's national chairman, Charles Manatt, charged that Reagan had changed from the Great Communicator to "the Great Prevaricator." Manatt protested that Reagan had made a whole string of misstatements, overstatements and highly misleading assertions. Democratic candidates everywhere bewailed the highest unemployment rate in more than 40 years and the highest bankruptcy figures in half a century. They charged that these factors constituted an unacceptable price for the drop in inflation (from 13.5% in 1980, the last pre-Reagan year, to an annual rate...
...worst in Lebanon's string of horrors, the massacre at the two Palestinian refugee camps last month, is still not fully explained. The atrocities have generally been blamed on the Israeli-backed Christian Lebanese Forces, the Phalangist-dominated coalition of Christian militias. The Phalangists adamantly reject that charge. As an angry party spokesman told TIME last week: "The Lebanese Forces command vehemently denies any participation in these acts or of ordering any of its units or its individuals to participate. It is deeply regretted that guilt has been assigned to organizations and individuals before official investigations have been completed...
...current residents out and the wealthier residents--who can pay higher rents or higher condominium prices--in. And there's no doubt that many landlords are unscrupulous enough to use arson to chase residents out. An extreme instance of such tactics was the 1979-80 string of condo conversions in already-high-rent areas, which was apparently responsible for a fourfold increase in Back Bay's arson rate, scaring off many renters who had resisted conversion...
Because of the disappointing day, Altman--who has religiously substituted second string spikers into the lineup and tinkered with several starting combinations--said that she and Assistant Coach Bob Cassels have determined one starting lineup. "We'll be subbing but only when necessary," she said. "We've been experimenting with different teams, and at this point it's been hurting...
...business. Stung by Agee's move, Marietta President Thomas Pownall, 60, launched a counteroffer of about $1.5 billion to buy Bendix instead. In addition, he persuaded United Technologies' chairman, Harry Gray, 62, who over the years had built his company into a $14 billion conglomerate with a string of successful takeover raids, to make a parallel bid for Bendix. The two men agreed that if either company gained control of Bendix, they would divide up Agee's firm between them. But United Technologies' involvement soon raised antitrust questions, and by last week Gray had ceased playing...