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...fact, went well beyond Florida. In Fort Worth, Texas, he backed the sale of as many as 150 F-16 fighters to Taiwan despite a longstanding policy against such sales -- and despite a predictable explosion from Beijing, a regime Bush has taken considerable pains to cultivate. In Humbolt, South Dakota, and Shallowater, Texas, the President announced the release of $755 million in crop disaster relief, as well as $1 billion in export subsidies for U.S. wheat farmers...
...stenciled -- in English -- on the side of every Soyuz landing craft, the lifeboat that RUSSIAN COSMONAUTS use when they return to earth. The instructions continue: "Take the key. Put into the hole. Turn. Open the hatch." Who knows? One of these days, a farmer in Nebraska or North Dakota might be following those directions. Should the two cosmonauts now orbiting in Russia's Mir space station need to make an emergency landing outside designated areas in the former Soviet Union, the Russians have told the U.S. State Department their destination of choice would be America's northern heartland. Washington...
...Senate voted 88 to 5 last week to bar states from allowing gambling on professional and amateur sports events. Nevada, Delaware, Oregon, North Dakota and Montana already allow sports gambling. Other cash-strapped states have been itching to get into the lucrative trade. Senator Bill Bradley, a former college and professional basketball star, said, "This will preserve the opportunity for all young people who want to participate in sports to regard the game as theirs, not the gamblers...
Lovett's favorite characters are "the cowboys down in Texas," as he sings in North Dakota, who "look across the border/ To learn the ways of love." But they never do learn. They are in the habit of hearing women say no or goodbye. The lost soul in All My Love Is Gone limns a broken triangle in words as simple as heartbreak: "She was angry/ He was free/ She loved him/ Then she left me." In She's Already Made Up Her Mind, a bereft man needs a friend to "sail with me out to that ocean deep...
...this year, 56 members of Congress have announced that they will not seek re-election in November, the largest voluntary departure since World War II. Among those who have decided not to return are Democratic Senators Tim Wirth of Colorado and Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Republican Congressman Vin Weber of Minnesota. At a round-table session, Wirth, Conrad and Weber discussed their reasons for leaving and how their attitudes toward government and public service were changed by their experiences in Washington. Excerpts...