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...Amin 20 months ago, counterattacked. In the clashes, more than 2,000 civilians were butchered. As many as 300,000 others fled into neighboring Zaïre and Sudan. A desperately needed crop of sorghum is now rotting in the fields simply because there is no one left to harvest...
...watchful and canny man-won't have misplaced the point of that. Most things come and go, however good to watch; a few things stay and matter to the end. Rain, for instance, a few hundred people having harmless fun on a fall afternoon to honor their harvest and to brace against winter. Let him come on back and watch this a long time before he writes a line...
...left is going to mount an offensive, December would be an almost ideal month. It is harvest time for major export crops-coffee, sugar cane and cotton-and disruption in the fields could deal the shaky economy a crippling blow. Leftists are also concerned that the going may get rougher after Ronald Reagan's Inauguration in January. Reagan aides have promised that the new Administration will support the junta and the army against the leftists. In addition, a report by Reagan's State Department transition team proposed changes that would curtail the influence of social reformers throughout Latin...
...rate over the next few months; some economists even foresee a rerun of the price explosion of last spring, when the rate briefly hit 18%. One of the villains will be food prices; they may rise by as much as 2% a month this winter because of a poor harvest and overseas demand. At the same time, the unemployment level, now 7.6%, will creep up as rising interest rates slow down homebuilding and other industries. As it is, the economy is very sluggish. New home sales in September dropped 14% from the previous month, and retail trade, depressed by continued...
...years ago the hyperactive child is a Hero. He milks the cows, feeds the chickens, baskets the eggs, slops the pigs, harnesses the team, plows the field, gathers the harvest, saddles the horse, rides the range, drives the car, cuts the wood, mows lawns, picks cotton, reads novels, dates girls, sweeps the house, mops the kitchen, boy scouts, plays sports, deerhunts with his father, goes to dances, practices the piano, sings in the choir, plays in the orchestra, attends school, travels widely, and engages in sundry other activities...