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...I.R.A. political arm. Just short of 40, with a high-domed, cherubic face, he looks less like an I.R.A. veteran than a high school teacher, which is what he is-although he has little time for classes these days. He works full time tending the republican movement's aboveground political machinery, leading street demonstrations, making speeches and running its propaganda campaign. He is the Sinn Fein's most visible face...
While the political spectrum of the regular comic strips ranges from the moderately liberal (Pogo) to the arch-conservative (Little Orphan Annie), a relatively new phenomenon, underground comics, is pursuing radical political and sexual themes that their aboveground brothers would never dare to touch. Begun in the mid-'60s, the undergrounds, or head comic books, such as Zap and Despair and strips in papers like the Berkeley Barb and Manhattan's East Village Other, speak for the counterculture in a zany, raunchy and often obscene idiom. In one issue of the East Village Other, a strip depicts...
...Crucial Overhang. Last year global demand for silver amounted to 397 million oz., but production in the non-Communist world was only 247 million oz. What speculators grossly underestimated, however, was the size and importance of the "overhang"-the hoard of silver being held aboveground by corporations and private investors. There is an estimated 450 million oz. in bullion stored in the U.S. and Europe, plus 500 million oz. more in private U.S. coin collections. Moreover, millions of people in India are believed to own several billion oz. of silver jewelry and other heirlooms. Such huge hoards guarantee that...
Thousands of collegians in the Boston area, that's who. The reason appears under several names: International Termpapers, Inc., Universal Termpapers, Termpapers Unlimited and Quality Bullshit. Since September these new, aboveground organizations have turned out more than 4,000 term papers for students willing to pay $3 a page for standardized material and $6 a page if the paper is custom-made...
...prevent the $1 billion line's 180° oil from melting Alaska's permafrost, the report urged that only 52% of the pipe be buried underground, the rest to run aboveground with crossings for big game animals and protection for fish spawning grounds. Oil companies would be liable for all damage caused by oil spills. Because a federal court has enjoined the pipeline builders, and final approval awaits various public hearings in Alaska next month, the Interior report is still "tentative...