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Recent confrontations between Israeli soldiers and civilians with Arabs on the West Bank lead some to denounce Israeli mistreatment of its Arab neighbors. Many of the incidents have indeed been tragic, most notably the killing of an Arab schoolgirl and the maiming of her sister by an Israeli soldier. This and similar incidents, along with the continued expropriation of Arab land for Israeli settlement, only exacerbate the already dangerous tensions in the area. The military administration in the West Bank too has been criticized so in some cases, for the use of arbitrary arrest under the pretext of safely precautions...
...whole rack of Gothic thrillers; it also offered a narrator who pretended to be a deaf-mute, baroque retellings of native legends and a riot of inventiveness. Donoso was inevitably mentioned in the same breath with Borges and Marquez as yet another prophetic surrealist bent on reimagining his colorful, tragic continent...
What is so tragic about Means's campaign is that be sees no hope in anything but separation. The few services still offered by the government will be jeopardized when a tidal wave of $180 billion in red ink rolls into Congress is spring. And the current Administration seems to have no concern for protecting the landscape from developers. The end result of such a tragedy can only be polarization, annihilation, and despair...
...ovation for the heroism in Grenada of Sergeant Stephen Trujillo, an Army Ranger from Denver, "who reminds us what it means to be Americans." Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, moderator of the Democratic response to Reagan, cited the death in Beirut of Marine Corporal Edward Gargano from Quincy, Mass., as tragic proof that the Administration's Lebanon policy is wrongheaded...
Occasionally the byproducts of sudden wealth are tragic. The public sale of Eagle Computer stock in June made President...