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Other teams relocated in hopes of attracting more interest: 1984's Washington Federals are 1985's Orlando Renegades, while the New Orleans Breakers, who had just finished moving down from Boston, packed up again and are now playing in Portland, Ore. The Chicago Blitz is a paper franchise, having suspended play for this season and dealt out its squad like so many cards to other U.S.F.L. teams. While a few U.S.F.L. franchises are catching on, none of them are breaking even. Indeed, the L.A. Express played its opener last Sunday on welfare, so deep in the red that...
Responding to a media blitz by a local defense contractor, the Cambridge City Council is going to the polls next November to find out how Cantabrigians feel about nerve gas testing within city limits...
Deng is obviously trying to ensure that his reforms will survive after he is gone. In recent months he has stressed to foreign visitors that his overtures to the West are a permanent feature of Chinese foreign policy, not a passing fad. But as the blitz of New Year's pronouncements indicated, Deng also feels that the attempt to bring reform to the cities needs a fresh personal push. That effort has brought him back into the limelight after two years of governing largely behind the scenes. The strategy may help attract public support and build a national consensus...
...that the Washington-backed rebel effort was more widespread than it was. The airborne handbooks, coated in plastic to make them water-resistant, were among 3,000 printed at CIA headquarters. But only a fraction were ever sent aloft, because the agency was short of money and the balloon blitz had no discernible effect on the Sandinistas...
...latest media blitz has brought the usual round of recriminations and half-baked relief efforts, but nothing in the current debate suggests that Africa and the West have come up with anything that will help Ethiopia and other afflicted countries in the long-term...