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The irony of hardworking blue-collar families drinking from contaminated wells or lugging five-gallon cans for miles to their kitchens is most galling, of course, to the have-nots themselves. "We keep hearing promises -- water pretty soon, pretty soon," laments Celia Mendoza, who homesteaded here with her husband and...
Much as the black-ruled nations of Africa might detest it, they cannot ignore the fact that the pariah state of South Africa is the economic and military superpower south of the Sahara. This galling reality is the backdrop against which State President P.W. Botha is staging a new diplomatic...
As a result of its difficulties, NASA has lost potential commercial clients to the European Space Agency, which will put payloads into orbit aboard unmanned Ariane rockets at bargain prices (cost: about $40 million per payload). Even more galling was last month's decision by the Reagan Administration to allow...
So George III and his ministers were even more distressed when, on Nov. 16, 1776, the Andrew Doria, a lightly armed brigantine flying the flag of the Continental Congress, was greeted by an eleven-gun salute from the fort guarding the main harbor of the Dutch West Indian island of...
The idea of a joint U.S.-Soviet Mars mission is galling to other Americans who, glasnost notwithstanding, simply do not trust the Soviets. Their view was summarized in a recent op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times by Space Writer Alcestis Oberg, the wife of James Oberg. "A joint...