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...faat rock in front of the apple tree was one goal line. At the other end of the field was a ditch (not a big ditch, grant you, but very distinctly a ditch) full of water. That was the other goal line. Down the middle of the field ran another ditch, which subdivided the field lengthwise, splitting the playing surface like a tommy...
...terrorists' maddeningly effective ability to spread havoc and fear is far out of proportion to their numbers. Police believe that no more than six persons, split between two small Provisional I.R.A. cells, are involved. The war of nerves, as Scotland Yard sees it, is a desperate, last-ditch attempt by the badly scattered Proves to make the British so fed up that they will withdraw their troops from Ulster. But the bombings could also backfire and stiffen British resolve to stick it out. Late last week, the I.R.A., which had previously refused to confirm or deny responsibility...
After 171 years of debate, negotiations and Utopian dreams, the British government last week gave its final blessing to a project that will physically unite the tight little isle with the European continent. The project: building a tunnel beneath the "great wet ditch" that Britons chauvinistically refer to as the English Channel and Frenchmen call La Manche (The Sleeve). According to the timetable laid out in a government White Paper, on Nov. 15 Britain and France will sign a treaty committing the two nations to support the construction of a 32-mile tunnel between the Kentish village of Cheriton...
Apolinar's stature confers another benefit: when state labor inspectors make their infrequent visits, he can crawl into a nearby irrigation ditch and hide. Last week, however, a sharp-eyed inspector caught Apolinar. If he had ordered him to leave the fields, the Castillo family would have to go without the $2.70 that his average 48 lbs. of peppers a day contributes to their earnings -and one of his five brothers and sisters might have gone hungry...
...Ditch digging, plumbing, truck driving, lumbering. One by one, fields once closed to women are opening up. Among the latest to admit females: pimping. Hamburg, Germany, scene of this latest "advance," now has 300 to 400 female pimps, each bound to one prostitute in a lesbian relationship. "With the emancipation of women and the increasing tolerance of homosexuality," Police Official Karl Heinz Westphal explained last week, "more and more prostitutes refuse to be exploited by a male pimp and turn to women as surrogate...