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...less important scientifically, both landers managed to drill a few centimeters into the Venusian surface, scoop up some rock and analyze its chemistry. The conclusion: the material at both sites was basalt, fire-formed rock typically found in lava flows on earth. Indeed, based on its telltale traces of potassium, the material at Venera 14's site seemed uncannily like rocks that come out of the earth at the volcanically active mid-ocean ridges...
Democrats in both houses, on the other hand, fear that the President would wield his veto power if they pushed an alternative of their own. "I went through that drill last year," recalls Illinois' Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who had proposed a Democratic substitute for Reagan's tax cuts. "I came away unbowed but a little bloody. I can't move anything in the Congress." Democrats find themselves in an ambiguous political position. Most believe that Reagan's budget makes no economic sense and will severely prolong or even deepen...
Some Classics' games, however, are more fun than others. One encounter two years ago saw the squad do the obligatory pre-game lay up drill in a rather unorthodox manner: the group dribbled, shot and dunked without the ball for ten minutes. Another such episode had one Classic pull down his teammates shorts in front of hundreds of flabbergasted spectators...
...village, guerrilla units including armed women practiced weapons drill near thick-walled homes with thatched and orange tile roofs that had been smashed by government forces. The guerrillas had organized patrols of young boys, some under the age often, to act as scouts and runners for their parents. The adults carried a motley array of weaponry, chiefly old carbines and a few automatic rifles...
Mesquite is part of the rancher's somewhat hard-bitten order of things. Its roots go deep. But they do not delve nearly as deep as the oilman's drill bits go, in another West Texas order of things, boring into the earth for money. It is sometimes a morally uncomfortable coexistence-the business of running cattle and sheep on the surface of the range vs. the business of taking oil from deep beneath...