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...that Premier Fidel Castro had got rid of all the opponents he wanted to see depart. Another was that the Soviet Union was displeased with the exodus because it gave Communism a black eye. Cuba might also have been concerned that the airlift was creating a "brain drain" of skilled and professional workers. But a more immediately compelling theory centered around the fact that four Cuban athletes had defected during the recent Pan-American Games in Cali, Colombia, a defection that Castro charged had been instigated...
...elephants to drink from the river Aar; the water was too polluted even for pachyderms, the doctors said. Lake Geneva, whose transparent water and white chalk bottom once moved poets to lyricism, is becoming clouded and dull. Industrial, agricultural and household chemicals-not to mention raw human wastes-drain uninterruptedly into the lake, where they fertilize enormous "blooms" of rust-colored algae. When these plants die, they sink and decompose, depleting oxygen supplies to such an extent that prized deep-swimming fish suffocate. "There are still transparent waters in mountain lakes, but these are too cold for anybody to jump...
Nonetheless, a profligate inclusiveness tends to drain the phrase "political prisoner" of its specific (and still valid) meaning. To accept the idea that all black prisoners are political is to condemn implicitly the laws that sent them to prison and to suggest that they all be freed. But since an overwhelming majority of the victims of black crime are black, and since most blacks, in or out of ghettos, obey the law, the release of all black prisoners might strike law-abiding Negroes as a subtle kind of redoubled racism. Moreover, in demanding Angela's freedom, radicals forget that...
Wealthy parent companies can afford to pay the bills. Helped by its highly profitable World Book Encyclopedia and a children's series called Childcraft, Field Enterprises earned about $7,000,000 last year despite the drain of the Daily News. The Tribune Co. is even richer. Among its gilt-edged properties are the New York Daily News,* a string of papers in Florida, and TV stations in Chicago, Denver and Duluth...
...most of the last 20 years, the U.S. has emptied its pockets abroad with the abandon of a sailor on shore leave. European bankers have grown hoarse warning that the dollar outflow and resulting drain of U.S. gold reserves could eventually wreck the purchasing power of the dollar overseas and endanger the world's monetary system. Last week a succession of dismal developments gave those warnings a new and compelling urgency...