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...since Carter had singled out Slepak by name as a cause for personal concern during his 1976 election campaign. What is more, when Carter spoke last week to a Washington gathering of 26 foreign ministers from the Organization of American States, the issue of human rights took up one-fourth of his 20-minute address. Though Carter was obviously referring to violations in Latin America, his warning that "there are costs to the flagrant disregard of international standards" was presumably meant to be heard in Moscow as well...
Despite such calming gestures, a residue of bitterness persists in the wake of Proposition 13's passage. The city council in Livermore (pop. 54,400) has taken a defiant stand, vowing to spend $320,000 on new council chambers even while threatening to fire a fourth of the city's 207 employees. "There might never be that much money on hand again for years," explains Assistant City Manager Edward Shilling...
...group of third-and fourth-graders swarmed through the Vermont statehouse last January and persuaded legislators to designate Apis mellifera (the honeybee) as the state's official insect. Argued one of the young lobbyists: "Bees are industrious, just like us Vermonters." The bill was duly signed into law by Governor Richard A. Snelling...
...Fourth of July--America's favorite holiday. Almost everyone has rustic memories of fireworks, picnics, and typical holiday hanky-panky. You may be far from the scene of these memories, stuck with an urban Fourth, but you can still have some fun. If holiday celebrations are your thing, then Beantown has got a doozy for you. On the evening of the great day, there's a traditional celebration at the Esplanade, downtown on the river basin. Two years ago 400,000 people jammed into the park to frantically celebrate the Bicentennial; while there probably won't be quite that many...
Martinez then settled down long enough to have heart failure as the Orioles proceeded to strand the majority of the afternoon's 12 LOBs, but then gave some of the blame to himself when Burleson launched his fourth homer of the season to center field in the fifth to make...