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...government has spent $A1.2 billion on drought assistance during the past five years; 53,000 rural families have been helped through interest-rate subsidies and welfare payments designed for those calamities that happen only once in 25 years. Howard told ABC-TV's Landline program that the point of the assistance is to help farmers "keep food on the table and to meet normal living expenses." Given the hardship in many parts of the bush, urban taxpayers can hardly be called heartless or stingy. In any case, it's a fat time for government revenue collection, so a helping hand...
...generating speed. But the tight old stadium, with its narrow six-lane oval walled in by chanting crowds of passionately knowledgeable Oslo running fans, seems to elicit special heroics from competitors. The athletes feel, in the words of retired U.S. Runner Marty Liquori, who commented on the race for ABC-TV, as though they are being pushed along "in a tunnel of sound." No fewer than 42 world records had been set there since 1924. The meet two weekends ago added three more in what Track Writer Kenny Moore of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED called "the most magnificent evening of distance running...
...give it time. The networks' position is questionable, critics argue, because daytime soaps and prime-time series like Dynasty routinely glamourize sex without suggesting its risks. Says Jeanne Rosoff, president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research center: "Network program content is explicit to the point where one ABC-TV executive was quoted as saying, 'We are reaching the point of physical motion under the covers of a bed.' I can't see how the word contraceptive is going to shock anybody...
Thus the wily Philippine leader wrapped up the loose ends in an extraordinary new political gambit that he had first unveiled five days earlier. Appearing on ABC-TV's This Week with David Brinkley, Marcos had startled almost everyone when he declared his willingness to call a snap election "right now." Said Marcos: "I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready." After the program, the Philippine leader stated his preference for Jan. 17 balloting, which would also mark the fifth anniversary of the dissolution of the 1972 martial-law proclamation that began his era of authoritarian rule. Two days...
...those helicopters crashed into a football field near the remote Nias village of Aman Draya, killing six naval and three air-force personnel. Two of the dead were women. Two male survivors were pulled from the burning wreckage and airlifted to the Kanimbla. Witnesses told abc-TV that the helicopter's engine failed 30 m above the ground. "This is really quite heartbreaking," said Prime Minister John Howard of his country's worst military accident since a 1996 helicopter collision in which 18 servicemen died. "Those young Australians were on a mission of mercy and compassion...