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...Leigh-Cheri Furstenberg-Barcelona, a princess from some made-up nation who resides in exile in Seattle with her parents. Having concluded that World Causes lend meaning and satisfaction to life (love had given her only an abortion and a miscarriage), Leigh-Cheri journies to Maui to attend the Geo-Therapy Care Fest, where she meets the other mouthpiece for Robins's thoughts, Bernard Mickey Wrangle, alias the Woodpecker. Wrangle, who has come to Maui to bomb the Fest, teaches the feeble-minded but articulate princess that (surprise) love is the only cause worth fighting for. Ergo, the challenge...
...should be eliminated altogether, commercial publishers are not happy about them. Last March Entrepreneur Mortimer Zuckerman purchased the small Atlantic Monthly (circ. 337,000) only a few months before his main competitor, Harper's, went nonprofit. "How does the Government expect privately held magazines to survive?" asks Zuckerman. Geo, an expensively produced monthly introduced in the U.S. last year by West Germany's Gruner & Jahr, goes up against the nonprofit National Geographic, Natural History and Smithsonian. It is not easy. As a for-profit enterprise, Geo finds it must charge subscribers $3 a copy, vs. National Geographic...
Presumably, then, draft registration would only be of use in the event of war--but what sort of war? Carter's coupling of the registration proposal with his new doctrine has created the fuzzy impression that somehow draft registration will help when the Soviets close their geo-political pincer on the Persian Gulf. But it's obvious a Carter Doctrine war would require equipment far more than men. It would be a war of relatively small forces relying on sophisticated weaponry as well as air and sea support--the kind of war Israel has been winning for decades. It demands...
Cohen, who was named Republican of the year by the Harvard Republican Club tonight, stressed the importance of geo-politics and said, "Our economy is only as important as our supply of energy...
...suit also focuses on a report prepared by a geo-technical consulting firm which indicates that "extensive deposits of very corrosive acid sludge lie directly in the path of the proposed Red Line extension tunnel," an affidavit filed by the Red Line Alert states. The defendants claim the original EIS does not mention the problem of the acid sludge...