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...opposition to the Soviet pipeline, discovered that only half the people had even heard of the project. The Washington Post-ABC poll finds that only four of ten Americans followed the news from Lebanon closely. To news junkies who try to keep up on events (perhaps a declining breed), TV speaks in some depth and detail only in the off-hours...
...Harnett was one of the new breed of conservative Congressmen swept into office in the Reagan triumph of 1980. Once a Democrat, the South Carolinian switched par ties after George McGovern's nomination in 1972, and he carries with him some of the fervor of the convert. Though he helped Reagan win his budget battles last year, he was put in an agonizing predicament by the tax bill. "I'm philosophically opposed," drawled Hartnett the day before the vote. "You don't cut Government by giving it more money. You've got to starve the bureaucrats...
While the Navy, in the person of Sgt. Foley drags Mayo towards his officer's stripes. Paula Pokrifki (Debra Winger) lures the man out from behind the James Dean-punk facade. Paula is a factory girl from across the bay, apparently one of a breed specializing in purposely getting knocked-up by pilots-to-be, hoping for a shot-gun wedding and an escape from their dreary existence. But Mayo's motel bedmate turns out to be different sensitive, self-aware, and genuinely in love with an Italian stud tast becoming an admirable person as well. Winger is not only...
...Moscow, three horses with even longer pedigrees arrived from New York in a far different but no less intriguing deal that will bring three Soviet horses to the U.S. The object: to improve the breed on both sides of the Atlantic. The animals, a stallion and a mare born in the Bronx Zoo and a mare from San Diego's zoo, are rare Przewalski's horses. Discovered in Mongolia a century ago by the Polish-born Russian army colonel for whom they are named, Equus przewalskii is the only truly wild, totally undomesticated horse still left on earth...
...news that a strain of albino lab mice used by cancer investigators everywhere was genetically contaminated. The tainted mice were discovered by University of Wisconsin Biologist Brenda Kahan and her colleagues while they were growing a primitive type of tumor called a teratocarcinoma. A puzzling enzyme uncharacteristic of the breed kept showing up hi the host animals, a common strain known as BALB/c. Careful genetic tests soon confirmed suspicions: the mice were not the purebreds promised by their supplier, the Massachusetts-based Charles River Breeding Laboratories, Inc. Since the company is the world's largest producer of lab animals...