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Howell expects little outcry from anti-genetic-engineering activists about the plant experiments' danger to the environment. "At this time, this is only a laboratory creature. And plants don't fly or crawl across the floor or creep into mouseholes. You can set one down and be pretty sure that's where it's going to be when you look again...
...From Nicaragua, yes; but 10 hours from Managua. This isn't a direct flight. We have to parachute into the jungle and crawl to the city on our bellies...
This is comedy of the funny-peculiar bent, and not so much ensemble as communal. Like Sparrows Can't Sing, Joan Littlewood's delicious pub-crawl farce of the '60s, No Surrender flaunts too many characters, plotlets and reversals of mood but still manages to hold together splendidly. Thank Screenwriter Alan Bleasdale (whose elegy to Elvis Presley, "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", played the West End last year) for the film's wild pungency. He is ably abetted by a cast of vet actors and a few odd-jobbers like Rock Star Elvis Costello, who has a funny turn...
...seizing as ammunition for the approaching 1986 elections. The study is partisan in origin: it was produced by the Democratic staff members of Congress's Joint Economic Committee. But at a time when the growth of the nation's deficit-ridden economy has slowed to a barely perceptible crawl, and when new uncertainties have been raised by the sweeping tax reform that is likely to become law, the study highlights some eye- catching trends in jobs and incomes...
...investigation of the accident is completed, but the cleanup effort at Chernobyl continues. In recent weeks it has been slowed to a crawl by a series of technical troubles. The biggest problem is to encase the reactor, which is still emitting dangerous radioactive particles, in a concrete tomb. The Soviets have run short of cement and have had to install a ventilation system to prevent heat buildup, which might cause new fires and explosions. The Communist Party daily Pravda has criticized the slowness of the effort, pointing out that three other nuclear reactors located on the site cannot resume operation...