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...local promoter had him record The Coldest Rap in 1982, which led to deejay stints around L.A., including shows at the now defunct Radio dance club downtown. For $50 a week, Ice-T spun the records and rapped to mostly white crowds. "I had this double identity," he says. "Deejaying for trendy kids on the weekends, and doing the dirt on the street the rest of the time...
...clogged the river with 300 tons of dead fish. In one hour in early May, a squall dumped a record 110 mm (4 1/3 in.) of rain on Hong Kong, turning steep city streets into rushing rivers and killing five. In the Middle East this January, the wettest, coldest winter in recent memory was capped by a storm that blanketed Amman, Damascus and Jerusalem with much more snow than anyone there had seen for 40 years...
...Africa is having its worst drought in 50 years, and eastern Australia, which is supposed to have summer when the northern hemisphere has winter, had to do without this year. Instead of balmy days and bright sunshine, Melbourne racked up a record 12 consecutive days of rain and the coldest January in 137 years, which is as far back as anyone Down Under kept track...
...coldest the house gets is 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Doug spends 50 dollars a year to heat his home on a half-cord of wood that is burned on the coldest winter days. Two-thirds of the heating is done by the sun, ten percent from the two pot-bellied stoves. The rest comes from "heat of occupancy": the oven, the refrigerator, light-bulbs, and people. Doug looked at the 15 of us in his living room. "Right now, all of you are giving me 100 watts," he said...
This charge was always nonsense, but cold warriors never imagined they would ever have the chance to prove it. Now they do. The coldest of cold warriors are among those advocating the most radical and generous embrace of the erstwhile enemy. Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb and Dr. Strangelove himself, calls Western assistance for Russia more justified than even the Marshall Plan. Richard Nixon, lifelong anticommunist, pushes massive Western aid and debt relief for Russia. One high Reagan Administration official, Fred Ikle, has gone so far as to propose a "defense community" between America and Russia modeled...