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...tasting conducted by Dr. Linda M. Bartoshuk in her laboratory at the Yale-affiliated John B. Pierce Foundation, the only samples I was offered were tepid, clear chemical solutions. They were washed over my tongue or used as a mouth rinse as I leaned over a sink or a funnel hooked up to a waste pail...
With the Administration's requests for continued aid to the Salvadoran army and Nicaragua's contras bottled up in Congress, an intriguing question arises: Could the U.S. funnel arms to Central America through Israel? U.S. officials refused to address the question directly last week, but they conceded that it had the merit Of being logical. Israel has looked on Central America with a kind eye ever since Nicaragua allowed Jewish freedom fighters to ship arms into Israel under the Nicaraguan flag in the late 1940s. In return, Jerusalem has long supplied weapons to several Central American countries, including...
...Bell family of Winnsboro, S.C., had no such luck. Ulese Bell, 52, and his son Ulese Jr. dived under a bed as the funnel approached. But Maude Bell, 48, wanted to see the storm's awful majesty. "She just walked out of the room and into the den to watch the hail fall," says Ulese. "Within three or four seconds, wham! The house just collapsed." Ulese dug his wife of 28 years out of the rubble, but she never regained consciousness...
...least 1,050 people were injured last week in the Carolinas, and perhaps 3,000 more were left homeless. "It looked like the hand of God reaching down to crush us," said Joyce Leonard of the funnel that ripped through Mount Olive, N.C. She and her two children survived by taking cover in a ditch. Said North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt: "We have never seen a disaster like this before, and we pray to God we never see one again...
...Libertad, and three radio stations that broadcast out of Managua and Mexico City. Salpress, a guerrilla news service started in 1980, has correspondents in nine countries and distributes weekly news summaries and features to newspapers as far away as Sweden and Mozambique. In the U.S., 347 "solidarity committees" funnel money to the movement...