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...first time the 11-year-old Society Expeditions has offered a trip to a weird place. Previous tours have included Easter Island, Antarctica and Mongolia...
Occasional cutting vignettes appear--such as the hippie painter asking tourists "to compare the peacefulness they would see on Haight Street with the violence of the beer-drinking college kids at Fort Lauderdale over the Easter holiday"--but the book largely avoids undue sentimentality...
...have been adroit. Over the Easter weekend, Gorbachev proposed that the Soviet Union and the U.S. immediately stop deployment of intermediate- range nuclear weapons in Europe. The ploy was too transparent to work. The Soviets had essentially completed their missile buildup, and the U.S. was in the midst of countervailing emplacements; a freeze would have left the U.S.S.R. with a huge lead in warheads. Even the Dutch government, which earlier had waffled on accepting American missiles, turned down the idea...
...Hinckley Police Chief Mel L. Wiley, 47, turned up at Cleveland's Lakefront State Park on Lake Erie. Park rangers noticed it around 4 a.m. one Tuesday. The locked car contained Wiley's neatly stashed clothing, a towel, his wallet, police identification, a badge. Then Wiley's girlfriend Judy Easter reported that the chief told her the day before his disappearance he intended to buy a bathing suit at K mart and go swimming with an unnamed out-of-town visitor. The possibilities seemed ugly. Drowning? Foul play...
...Chilean government is expected to approve NASA's proposal, despite opposition from a number of Chileans. In a letter to a Santiago newspaper, members of an environmental group, the League for Nature and Peace, warned against "the great ecological damage that such a venture will bring to Easter Island." But David Garrett, NASA spokesman for Space Flight, insists that if the project is approved, NASA will "abide by all Chilean environmental- protection requirements...