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...Republic of South Africa, "First Report of the Constitutional Committee of the President's Council" (Cape Town: Government Printers, 1982). The authors find especially noteworthy Professor Huntington's remarks regarding the problems of a "fully inclusive system;" they quote at length his arguments against a system of one-person, one-vote for South Africa...
Most of the 1987 events have been bringing in $10,000 to $25,000. The son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy has not planned any large events similar to last year's cookout at the Kennedy compound on Cape Cod that brought in some $75,000, McDermott said...
...scientists and conservationists are - increasingly interested in readapting captive or injured sea animals to the wilds. Last month the New England Aquarium, with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, organized a successful attempt to return to the ocean three pilot whales that had washed up on a Cape Cod beach. The $150,000 ORCA effort was the first attempt to develop an entire program for retraining captive dolphins for life at sea. "Projects like this are extremely important," says Whale Expert Roger Payne. "They open up new ways for dealing with captive animals...
...letters at 221B Baker Street, even though the place now houses the Abbey National Building Society. Groups on four continents regularly meet to study the canon (56 stories and four novels), as well as some 12,000 books about the sacred writings. The familiar lean figure with Inverness cape, deerstalker and underslung pipe regularly appears in the headlines. Speculating two weeks ago on who laid the mines plaguing U.S. convoys in the Persian Gulf, David Mellor, a British Foreign Office official mused, "Sherlock Holmes wouldn't take too long to resolve that...
...years. At Boca Grande Pass, an inlet on the Gulf Coast of Florida, some 200 million cu. yds. of sand have been carried seaward by the tidal currents. In North Carolina, where erosion this year alone has cut into beachfront property up to 60 ft. in places, the venerable Cape Hatteras lighthouse is in peril of the encroaching sea. Soon it must either be moved or surrounded by a wall. Otherwise, it is likely to suffer the fate of the Morris Island light, near Charleston, S.C. Once on solid land, it now stands a quarter of a mile offshore...