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...helicopters, repeated mechanical failures led some Californians to joke that the choppers were leftovers from the ill-fated hostage rescue mission in Iran. Pilots and ground crews were unaccustomed to the spraying procedures and slow to adapt to the use of the viscous pesticide solution, which tended to clog pumping equipment. It was not until the end of the week that more than two helicopters were aloft at the same time. Observed a U.S. Department of Agriculture official: "I think Murphy's Law has taken over, because everything that could go wrong...
...used in El Salvador, where we already have military "advisers," then why join? If its goal will be to shoot peasants and defend "authoritarian" regimes, then why wish it better weapons? If the tanks are going to roll into more Vietnams, why should we care if their engines clog with dust...
...other. Lobbyists clearly function best when they deal with one issue at a time. In fact some White House aides only half facetiously forecast that following the President's proposals on Feb. 18 for sharp spending cuts, special interest lobbyists flying into Washington's National Airport would clog up at the gates and never make it into town...
...source), bingo, food stands (one white, one black-with integrated patrons), puppets, a pleasantly inept bluegrass trio, somber teen-age gospel singers ("Praising the Lord the best way we can"), an integrated high school song-and-dance team (good enough for the Donny and Marie show), and the best clog dancing I've ever seen from the Muckalee Mudstompers, a local troupe with a world-class clogger in Jeff Moss, a 16-year-old native of Plains. Talk to him and he only talks of dancing-how he loves it, how he practices every minute he can but means...
...detectives." With school enrollment up 20% from 1979, most of the $1 million in funds voluntarily contributed by Amoco and Chevron are long gone, mostly for buses and classrooms. Roads torn up by the big rigs need constant repairing, and traffic jams a quarter of a mile long clog downtown streets. "We are suddenly loaded down with a lot of big city problems," says City Manager Steve Snyder. Adds Mayor Dennis Ottley: "It's driving us all crazy...