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Vicious Traps. A favorite I.R.A. tactic is to put gelignite into a milk churn, then stand it by the roadside among dozens of other containers that farmers put out at night to be collected by the dairies. When an army patrol passes by, the terrorists detonate the churn by remote control. Other I.R.A. traps are just as viciously clever. A month ago, two Ulster policemen were lured by a false report into an isolated area, where they were ambushed and killed...
...bargain because of the plant's low operating costs. "It's like spending more for a car that gets better mileage," explains Jerry Stanbrough, a spokesman for Illinois' big electric utility, Commonwealth Edison. But even these numbers now look shaky. Instead of being available to churn out electricity 80% of the time, as advertised, nukes have been shut down for inspection or repairs on the average of 40% of every year. Like cars that often go back to the shop, they have not delivered their "better mileage...
...gave Reagan 44%, Ford 43%. Says a top Midwestern Republican who backs Ford: "Reagan's attracting the same crowd that backed Barry Goldwater. The minute he announces, they're going to pop out of the woodwork. They run for delegate slots, are very vocal and will churn everything...
...however, these issues form a small fraction of the bookshelves. The pride and joy of Society headquarters is the $40,000 mail-stuffing machine, which according to Gotch, can put as many as nine enclosures in a letter, fold, seal, and stamp a computer-typed address on it, and churn 'em out at 50 per minute...
...last battle began in mid-October when Franco left a Cabinet meeting with what his doctors described as a mild flu. Then, when Franco canceled several meetings, rumors began to churn. Finally, to quash talk that he had died, palace spokesmen admitted that he had suffered a heart attack...