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Before reaching Del Rio, the road wanders through Roma, a steamboat terminus in the 19th century. The sheriff is out to lunch, but his office, on a bluff overlooking the river, is unlocked and unminded. Two hundred yards upriver a trio of illegal immigrants from Mexico wade across and disappear, just three more of the estimated 1 million to 2 million people who slip across the border each year...
...waves and winds, but not with a vengeance. Galveston experienced high tides, yet hardly a window was broken. In Brownsville, cars were overturned and mobile homes upended, but there was no loss of life. Those Brownsville residents who refused to leave acted as though they had called Gilbert's bluff. A Coast Guard helicopter rescued the crews of three fishing boats foundering in the Gulf of Mexico. "We're just full of happy endings today," said Petty Officer Bob Morehead, "which is great with a storm like this...
...want to grow tall." That was the birthday gift Reza Garakani, 14, one of the world's shortest dwarfs, would ask of friends and relatives year after year. His parents would joke and bluff their way through the painful moment. "Maybe next year, champ!" Later in the night they would cry themselves to sleep together. Their son's wish, like that of more than 50,000 other Americans who suffer from some form of dwarfism, had long been ungrantable...
...DEADLY FORCE AUTHORIZED, warn the prominently displayed red-and-white signs at the U.S. Army arsenal at Pine Bluff, Ark. Situated about 35 miles from Little Rock, off a busy state highway, the facility is the only producer of toxins for chemical weapons in the U.S. Since work resumed in December after a 19-year halt, the arsenal has manufactured a chemical called DF, which becomes nerve gas when mixed with alcohol. Workers are also busy incinerating some 94,000 lbs. of an obsolete hallucinogenic agent known as BZ. Yet area residents profess to have few fears about the facility...
...Pine Bluff is the only Army facility that makes lethal chemical compounds, but it is one of eight around the country where they are stored.* The entire U.S. arsenal consists of some 30,000 tons of deadly liquids and gases. About two-thirds of that hoard is kept in drums; the rest is contained in weapons ranging from some 3 million artillery rounds to nearly 500,000 rockets. Though virtually all are scheduled to be destroyed by the mid-1990s, the stockpiles have raised safety issues. Congress learned last April that the Army has discovered more than 1,000 leaking...