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Some inadequacies of the Carpenter Center may hamper some of those goals, a senior concentrator from North House says. "The lighting in the studios is really terrible. Sometimes you can hardly see what you're doing," he adds...
...Africa's gold and coal mines. Although Machel opposes South Africa's apartheid policies, he also recognizes that the two countries share a long common border. "This is a reality that can be neither ignored nor altered," he says. "Peaceful co-existence between neighboring states does not hamper the cause of peoples' liberation...
...jointed flagstaff and Union Jack, a hand pump and sterilizing plant, an astrolabe, six suits of tropical linen and a sou'wester, a camp operating table and set of surgical instruments, a portable humidor, guaranteed to preserve cigars in condition in the Red Sea, and a Christmas hamper complete with Santa Claus costume and a tripod mistletoe stand, and a cane for whacking snakes...
Technical obstacles also hamper development. China lacks port and petro chemical transportation facilities to service the new complexes and the trained manpower to build and run them. Despite a population that studies estimate has topped 1 billion, the corps of skilled technicians is too small to meet China's future needs in petrochemicals alone...
...Carter Administration has its way, America's intelligence community will seize the recent resurgence of military fervor to wriggle out of unwelcome Congressional and public restraints. Carter paints the effort to clothe intelligence agencies in responsibility as a straitjacket that will hamper our intrepid intelligence-gatherers from carrying out their duties in an era of deepening danger to American security. The president is now pushing not just to limit Congressional oversight of intelligence activities but to legalize and codify a whole range of "acceptable" practices that threaten both domestic civil rights and foreign sovereignty...