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...field day ridiculing the unproven "fratricide" and silo-hardening theories. "Pearl Harbor was the original Dense Pack," said California Democrat John Burton, reversing Reagan's argument. Iowa Republican James Leach called the attempts to harden silos beyond anything ever achieved "a public works project for the cement industry...
...skirt and a black kerchief, is hacking away at the earth with a pick. She is trying to build a house. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has just given her a small plot of land, $500 in Lebanese currency, a canvas tent and ten bags of cement. She will need more than that to rebuild her family's life. Six months ago, the Ein el Hilweh refugee camp in which she lived was the home of nearly 25,000 people, a mixture of comfortable houses and rickety slums near Sidon on Lebanon's southern coast...
...Cement particles from drilling on renovations in the nearby Sever Hall basement may have caused the irritation, workers in the building said yesterday...
Some observers, like former President Jimmy Carter, suggested that Andropov may feel impelled to flex his country's military muscles in his first months as general secretary of the Communist Party. Such a gesture would presumably cement the tentative legitimacy of the former Brezhnev aide. Others depicted the new leader as being more pragmatic in foreign affairs than his predecessor. In this view, Andropov might focus his energies on firming up the tottering Soviet economy, seeking success in the area where Brezhnev failed most...
...almost five miles across the 2,050-mile-long Paraná River, which divides Brazil and Paraguay. Its central concrete span alone stretches 4,059 ft., more than three-quarters of the entire length of the largest U.S. dam, the Grand Coulee. More than 15.6 million cu. yds. of cement went into the construction, enough to build eight medium-size Brazilian cities. The dam's 18 turbines, weighing 300 tons apiece, are so large that the Symphony Orchestra of Brazil once managed to stage a performance inside one of them as it traveled to the dam site. Itaipu...