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...months for electricity, but a plausible answer is never. Vast tracts of the city--not just shanties but mansions, not just the morgue but the Southern Yacht Club--aren't salvageable. They all sit in what is called "floodwater" but is really a solution of oil, feces, battery acid, human and animal rot, burst containers of bug spray and paint thinner and nail polish and antifreeze. The primary sensory experience of New Orleans now is the smell, a gagging foulness of the charnel, of the hundreds of bloated fish pooled in the 17th Street Canal and a million other nasty...
...argument and memo and decision has revealed a more complex character than initial reports promised. The 60,000 pages of documents from his early years as a hotshot Reagan Administration lawyer that have since been made public show an ambitious twentysomething with an attitude--sometimes cautious, always confident, occasionally acid, as when he referred to the Girl Scout who wanted to sell a box of cookies to Ronald Reagan as "the little huckster." And sometimes possessed of a tart sense of humor, as when Roberts replied to a professor anxious about being blacklisted because he had lodged a complaint against...
...waffling became evident as early as March, when Mulroney returned from his meeting with President Reagan in Quebec City with little more on the highly sensitive acid rain issue than U.S. promises to study the already overstudied problem. Then in June, Ottawa backed away from its plan to reduce Canada's federal deficit by changing the indexation of old-age pensions. In August, many Canadians were offended when Ottawa failed to take the initiative in protesting the passage of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea through the Northwest Passage, which Canada claims as a territorial waterway...
Similar expressions of disappointment greeted last week's announcement that a U.S.-Canadian team studying acid rain would recommend a $5 billion program to develop new technology but would do nothing in the meantime to reduce acid emissions from industrial polluters across the border, primarily in the Ohio Valley...
...official who "participated personally and substantially" in handling an issue from later lobbying on that same issue. Deaver insists that in the White House he was only tangentially concerned with U.S.-Canadian relations, but others have reported that he helped to choose an envoy to negotiate with Ottawa on acid-rain problems. A Canadian government spokesman denied a Washington Post report that Deaver had begun negotiating to sign up Canada as a lobbying client before he left the White House...