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...levels within 180 days. California Department of Food and Agriculture Director Clare Berryhill voiced "strong suspicions" that some farmers had knowingly misused the pesticide and added, "I'm going to use all the police powers I have to put them away. We are going to nail them to the cross." FOREIGN AID A Get-Tough House Package...
...sight of the bodies in the river. I saw not a single fish. That river was always full of fish. The whole area between my school and the Miyuki Bridge had looked so different. That was where Hiroshima University had stood. A railroad operated in that neighborhood. A Red Cross hospital had been there too. All gone. Children lay in the arms of dead parents, parents carried the bodies of dead children. The soldiers who brought me to the warehouse told of seeing a horse killed on the spot where it stood during the flash. There were no marks...
...Civil Liberties Union but got no credit for it. No male abuse of females goes unchronicled, and to give the author her due, the long litany, from foot binding to burning for witchcraft, has a sobering effect. French, an academic who has taught English at Harvard, Hofstra and Holy Cross, seems incapable of nuance. The history of fatherhood, she believes, is the history of tyranny, and dialogue is impossible in corporations and other hierarchical institutions. One of the primary aims of military training is to teach young men how to hate...
Budd returned home to South Africa, where her parents were in the process of separating. She announced she was giving up international competition, but soon changed her mind and in December returned to the European circuit. Some old foes were waiting. In the midst of a February cross-country race in Birkenhead, England, two antiapartheid demonstrators rushed into her path, forcing her to drop out. A month later she won the world cross-country championship in Lisbon by a stunning 23 sec. but raced erratically after that...
...living adjustments. Majority Leader Robert Dole and Senate Budget Chairman Pete Domenici had persuaded their colleagues to tempt the wrath of constituents by proposing a one-year freeze on COLAs. Three weeks ago, Reagan withdrew his support for the freeze, and angry Senators took it as a double cross. White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan further enraged Dole by accusing the lawmakers of shying away from the deficit crisis. "They are afraid to come to grips with it," Regan said. Last week the chief of staff tried to make amends by presenting Dole with a genuine Chaska Indian peace...