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Nucleus Command. Throughout most of Africa, both mercenary and Tshombe were about the dirtiest words on the list. Hiring troops from hated white supremacist countries will just about finish whatever chances Tshombe may have had of ever getting along with other black African nations. And there is little evidence that Tshombe even cares...
...Lebanese way of life is reflected in Beirut, which is the noisiest, dirtiest, liveliest and loveliest capital in the Middle East. Surging traffic bewilders a stranger, with tramcars plunging the wrong way down one-way streets, pedestrians and pushcarts jaywalking heedlessly. Garbage lies uncollected around stunning glass-walled apartment buildings, and any car parked below is certain to be littered by melon rinds and pistachio shells tossed from the balconies and windows. As fast as the police write out traffic tickets, motorists throw them away, and cars are double-and triple-parked all over town...
...dirtiest word in the world's coldly competitive steel business is "dumping"-the calculated practice of selling for less abroad than at home. While raising their own domestic prices last week, U.S. steelmakers grumbled bitterly that cut-price European and Japanese competitors are dumping steel on the U.S. market. In a thumb-in-the-eye brawl that is becoming global, the Europeans also accuse the Japanese of dumping steel in the Common Market. The Europeans have quietly made a cartel-like agreement to set prices of exports and carve up world markets-but so have the Japanese. Last week...
...like it or not, the young lady drops herself into the chair as though she were dropping a dead mouse into the garbage. Then she stares at her egg as though it had hair on it. Finally she favors the cook with what is surely one of the dirtiest looks ever looked. On her, it looks hilarious. Imagine a crocodile wearing a pinafore...
Where did that idea and order originate, and why was the dirtiest doublecross in the whole history of civilization so censored? It seems to me that the answer to these questions is an urgently important part of the reporting of the event, otherwise so capably handled...