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...November 1978 the superior firepower of the Soviet-backed government began to tell. Whole blocks of houses had been destroyed, the fields lay fallow and 220 residents were dead. When word spread that an overpowering government assault was imminent, the villagers called a traditional council. "We decided that we all had to leave that very night and take our families to Pakistan," remembers Amin Jan, now a mujahedin commander...
...term has evolved, it has come to take into account almost every purported new idea under the Democratic Sun. Hence Jim Hunt's intensive efforts on the part of education in his home state of North Carolina are seen as one manifestation of the new philosophy, and James Fallow' 70 work on military reform comes under the classification as well. Facile nomenclature is slung around this book with case, as we learn that neoliberals esteem, among other people and principles: decentralization, investment, microeconomics, Joseph Schumpeter, entrepencurialism, "maneuver warfare," growth, high technology, and hurrah for them, the "national interest...
Marge breaks ranks by marrying James Vogel, newcomer and lawyer for Safebuy, but the traditions of paper pushing and sodbusting soon conflict. The marriage dissolves. Marge must work the gambling wheel at the Elks' club to raise her son Kurt and to keep the fallow farm where her widowed mother bitterly awaits death. Part II is Kurt's account of Mother Marge's struggles, her drinking and her unhousebroken boyfriends, including a Sioux sheep rancher. The novel concludes with a hint of contrivance as the title, Leaving the Land, takes on a resonant double meaning: the inevitability...
Harper seemingly let his Polish contacts lie fallow for four years. One reason may have been that he lacked a security clearance. In 1978, however, he separated from his first wife Colleen, whom he eventually divorced, and in 1980 he married Schuler, then 36, whom he later described to friends as an alcoholic and anorectic. Despite those problems, Schuler, who was divorced and childless, worked as a secretary at Systems Control, Inc., a company involved in research for the U.S. Air Force's missile program. She had a "secret" security clearance. Shortly before her death, in a telephone conversation...
...billion bu. of corn that are expected to be lost to the drought are in addition to the 2.2 billion bu. not planted as part of the Government's payment-in-kind (PIK) program, which provides subsidies to farmers for keeping their fields fallow. Analysts estimate that the corn yield will be down by 25%, or $4.5 billion worth. In the short term this may mean lower prices for meat as ranchers rush their herds to slaughter rather than continuing to fatten them. But in the long run it could mean significantly higher prices for both meat and grain...