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...anti-Communist zeal of the 1950s; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Youngdahl, a deeply religious son of Swedish immigrants, was appointed to the bench in 1951 after five years as a racket-busting Republican Governor of Minnesota. In 1952 he drew a Government perjury case against Asia Expert Owen Lattimore, whom Senator Joseph R. McCarthy called "the top Soviet espionage agent in the United States." Youngdahl threw out several Government indictments against Lattimore, refused to withdraw from the case when a U.S. Attorney accused him of prejudice. Seethed Youngdahl: "Under my oath to preserve sacred constitutional principles, I can properly...
...does not have to be an energy expert to tell that our country's energy programs are off the track. Not only are trains like the Southern Crescent a joy to travel in but they are energy efficient. Instead of retiring the Crescent and her sister trains, the ICC might (perish the thought) cooperate with the Department of Energy and develop some incentives: ride instead of drive...
Those same locusts that plagued ancient Egypt and the Israelites -known to science as Schistocerca gregaria forsk-were back again. This time, the country under attack was Ethiopia. Last week agriculture experts reported that sections of the country's northern provinces were being devastated by 33 separate locust swarms, ranging in size from 5 to 40 sq. mi. Neighboring Somalia, meanwhile, reported 17 giant swarms of the buzzing, shell-covered creatures, which can sweep 100 sq. mi. of farm land clean overnight. Jean Roy, an expert in locust control operations for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization...
Other Israelis acknowledge the injustice of the occupation but are troubled by the alternatives. "The occupation goes against the basic attitudes of Zionism," says Biblical Expert Shemaryahu Talmon of Hebrew University. "It's clear that we have not been able to turn the situation of ourselves as occupiers into one of cooperation. The obvious solution is to say, let's get out of it. But you can't return to a situation [before 1967] where Israel was twelve miles wide at its waist...
Today, the Foreign Legion has a total strength of 8,000 men. It is an elite strike force whose members have been trained for counterterror and commando-type operations. The Second Parachute Regiment, for example, which recaptured Kolwezi, is expert in night combat, alpine warfare, urban cleanup operations, amphibious landings, demolition and sabotage. The average age of recruits: 22. Virtually all the legion's officers are French. Technically, French nationals are forbidden to enlist in the legion, but many do, pretending to be Belgians, Swiss or Canadians. Although the new legion tries hard to exclude professional thugs and officially...