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...much when what the Europeans do turns out to be irrelevant?" The allies went to "great trouble" to form a common position in support of Carter, said this official, only to confront what he called "another flipflop" in U.S. policy. Among America's allies the most damaging immediate fallout from the aborted mission was the reinforcement of an already strong conviction: Carter is not up to leading the U.S. and the alliance. A senior Common Market official was despairing: "It's not what we thought Americans would do. It's something you would expect from the Italian...
...political fallout from Dasht-e-Kavir...
...ahead with the mission. Said the Senator: "The whole thing has heavy political overtones." The Senator concluded from his private briefing that the mission was one of high risk and that "no one would have done it who was not running for the presidency." Looking ahead at the political fallout from Dasht-e-Kavir, the Senator added: "My guess is that we are going to hear a lot of rumbles from this...
Just as well. The Collins and Lapierre research indicates that civil defense contingency plans for evacuating 11 million people from the New York metropolitan area are laughable. During an inventory of the city's 1950s-era nuclear fallout shelters, it was discovered that millions of tins of biscuits, part of emergency food supplies, had been shipped to Nicaragua in 1972 after a severe earthquake there. Dope addicts had rifled painkilling narcotics from first-aid kits...
...when they were taken down for safekeeping during the two World Wars. Today the horses of San Marco remain the most famous bronzes to survive from the ancient world. But fame does not immunize bronze against pollution, and so to save the horses from the ravages of the fallout from the industrial center of Mestre in Venice, they have been taken down from the church. They will be put in a museum and replaced, on the basilica's fa&#amp;231;ade, by carefully copied understudies...