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Even relatively small and local events evoked or involved heightened group responses. A heave of national paranoia resurfaced on the 50th anniversary of the Roswell, N.M., flying-saucer incident. So certain were an astounding number of Americans that a saucer did indeed crash in the desert near Roswell in 1947 that the Army Air Force command in Fort Worth, Texas, issued an explanation at the time that the vehicle in question had been a weather balloon. This past June, to keep the public calm, the Army published reassuring photos in the papers...
...Like the Raiders, the KC Line is playing out a season turned sour. But unlike the Raiders, KC says, even down eight games, that the season's not over and the opportunities are at hand. So: Take the Falcons minus two and a half in the desert against the CARDS, mainly because Chris Chandler (!) is the NFC's second highest rated passer and Jake the Snake is not. Likewise, take the vet (Dan Marino) and the DOLPHINS minus another 2.5 over the Pats and a guy who with one throw lost the biggest game of the year in Foxboro...
Saddam should have been punished for his crimes after Desert Storm. You don't just chase away a rattlesnake. You hunt it down and kill it. JACK DENNIS Milledgeville...
...burgeoning casinos. Shortly after she arrived, the Mirage hired her to create the jungle. By that time she had begun using artificial plants because they were easier to work with and clients seemed to like them. She has since created everything from a replica of Arizona's Sonoran Desert for an Atlantic City, N.J., casino to a European country garden inside the Sheraton in Lima, Peru...
...tatters. His album sales were flagging. And the tabloids were running out of space to print Jacko stories, ranging from his alleged child molestation to his bizarre marriage to--and divorce from--Lisa Marie Presley. To whom did the troubled singer turn to restart his faltering career? Desert royalty from Saudi Arabia, one of the most culturally isolated nations on earth, where even Beethoven concerts, much less Michael Jackson spectacles, are banned by the government...