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...problem is people, "all of them attempting to build on the beach or as close to it as possible," says Durbin C. Tabb, an ecologist who teaches at the University of Miami. Untreated sewage has so filled south Florida's crowded ocean front that the bacteria count sometimes is three times higher than the count that federal health authorities consider hazardous. More than 50 million tons of untreated sewage is spewed from the cities of Miami Beach and North Miami each day, turning the shoreline into a stinking mess that Floridians bitterly call "the Rose Bowl." Sludge and fecal...
...Including Social Theorist Count de Gobineau (Essay on the Inequality of Human Races, 1855) and Eugenicist Francis Gallon (Hereditary Genius...
...G.O.P. National Committee's newsletter "Monday" as "a purveyor of the radical Democratic line on virtually every issue." Gardner once had to apologize for a staff goof that permitted the Democratic National Committee to use his mailing list for fund raising. He has been vulnerable on another count: Lyn Nofziger of the Republican National Committee has charged him with creating a personality cult. That accusation is undoubtedly unfair. But it is true that John Gardner's personal prestige and organizational skill have been essential in attracting supporters to Common Cause. While he persuasively disclaims personal political ambitions, there...
...negotiations," Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko once observed, "it is the last 20 minutes that count." Last week there were strong rumors in Bonn that the four-power Berlin talks, now in their 17th month, might be approaching the 20-minute countdown. When the Big Four ambassadors meet this week in West Berlin's old Prussian High Court Building, they are expected to make it a marathon session that may last three days. Speculation was that they are ready to hammer out the last kinks in an "umbrella agreement" on the city's status. Such a breakthrough could...
...debate produced such a strange alignment of forces that the outcome was never certain. The House approved the loan guarantee by a slim 192-189. In the Senate, Texas Republican John Tower, leader of the pro-Lockheed forces, could make no accurate nose count as his col- leagues prepared to vote this week-before beginning a one-month holiday. If the loan guarantee is not approved, Lockheed warned, the firm will run out of cash before Congress returns...