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...slides with a slippery slope: some ten miles away, another soggy mountainside began to roll downhill, threatening to divert a river through the town of Payson (pop. 5,000) before it firmed up. In Northern California earlier this month, a mud slide in the Sierras buried a 1,000-ft. stretch of Highway 50 between Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe under 60,000 cu. yds. of mud, rocks and debris. Highway crews, unable to remove the rubble, are now paving over the roadblock, which runs 30 to 40 ft. high in some spots. Mail in the area is temporarily being...
...Onstage she is a shatteringly forceful singer. Off stage she is married to the minister of a humble church who has trouble understanding the ambition that must lie behind a talent as large as hers. Like any wife whose career has outstripped her husband's, she would rather divert him with a home-cooked breakfast than try to explain herself all over again...
...French missiles should be left out of Geneva bargaining, the statement asserted, because "these forces are national strategic deterrents designed to defend France and Britain," not the other West European countries menaced by the SS-20s. "To include aircraft [in the missile bargaining], as Mr. Gromyko suggests, would divert attention from the most threatening and destabilizing systems and complicate the negotiations." And SS-20s stationed in Asia must be included because these highly mobile missiles could easily be shifted westward and retargeted on Western Europe in a crisis. The statement concluded: "The Soviet Union owes the world a more positive...
GALBRAITH OFFERS a similarly simple observation and bankrupt solution to the problem of weapons proliferation. No one could deny his assertion that arms sales divert from much-needed expenditures on food and medicine. But his belief that such arms sales are the cause, and not the result of international rivalries, and that consequently Third World enemies can easily unite against the superpowers and boycott weapons, is deluded. He boldly asserts that "from the weapons flow come the resulting tensions and conflict between the recipients-between India and Pakistan, Iran and Iraq, Israel and the Arab lands, between different factions within...
Industry wields its financial might on political and scientific levels to divert attention from possible environmental causes of cancer--through overt lobby groups, which battle environmental regulation, and through the less apparent but more insidious basic research by the industrial councils. But no spokesman defends public health as vociferously as industry protects its products. This one-sided debate has led to an increasingly polluted environment which harbors an ever-increasing number of probable carcinogens. The national death rate due to cancer has risen steadily since 1930, according to a 1982 American Cancer Society report. Although this rise in the incidence...