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...flotilla of patrol boats off the Lebanese ports of Tyre and Sidon to cut off supplies for the Palestinians. Under protection of Israeli artillery, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman even toured the area in an unmarked automobile, accompanied by Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur and Major General Yanush Ben-Gal, commander of Israel's northern sector...
Residents of arid Littlerock, Calif, (pop. 1,500), a farm community northeast of Los Angeles, have a choice of potential disasters. Would they rather risk being drowned, or drying up and blowing away? State officials want to drain the 521 million-gal, reservoir behind the nearby Littlerock Dam, whose water irrigates the peach and pear groves and melon fields that give the town what little prosperity it has. But the 53-year-old dam sits virtually atop the San Andreas Fault. Although the structure has survived severe tremors in the past, seismologists say it is located where the next...
Detroit engineers long shunned diesels for cars because of their comparatively sluggish performance, noise and weight. But the energy crisis that started with the Arab oil embargo of 1973 caused GM designers to take another look. The diesel gets anywhere from 15% to 25% more miles per gal. than a gasoline-powered engine. Besides that, diesel fuel, which is essentially highly refined fuel oil, can cost as much as 10? per gal. less at the pump than regular gasoline depending on the area of the country. And the diesel engine, which has no spark plugs or distributor points, requires less...
...Solid comedies with a very human touch have been in short supply this year; Outrageous! deserves a warm note of gratitude on that score alone. More significantly, however, this movie will serve as a perfect--though undoubtedly unintentional--counterpoint to the pink scare raised by the Florida Sunshine Tree gal and her band of bigots. Outside of the sensitive movie-for-T.V. Suddenly Last Summer, the media has handed homosexuals a pretty raw deal over the last ten years, protests of increasing tolerance notwithstanding. Outrageous! will go a long way towards remedying this problem, and judging by the packed...
Because gas consumption continues to climb and the number of stations has fallen sharply, the amount of gas pumped by the average station has more than doubled since the early 1970s, to about 33,000 gal. per month. The self-service stations typically pump much more -200,000 gal. per month...