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...last year's report, Eriksen matter-of-factly stated that pot patches provided far more farm income in Mendocino County-he estimated 1979's harvest at $90 million-than any other cultivated crop. Says Eriksen: "I thought it was a realistic thing to do." The county board of supervisors did not: when the smoke cleared, Eriksen had torn the offending page from every copy of his findings and promised never to report on m--a again. So this year, wine grapes will be called the county's biggest agricultural moneymaker. But that is a politician...
...with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." (Leviticus 18:22). For some, this statement is sufficient to invoke the moral authority of God against homosexuality But this is clearly a case of selective use of His word. The same book of the Bible also teaches men not to harvest the corners of their fields and not to touch a woman for eight days after she menstruates. Yet we consider these laws "outdated" and ignore them--for good reason. Rules against homosexuality and masturbation also played an important role in preserving the species. But now that we have the opposite...
Their government is to be a rule of one tribe for the sole benefit of its own people -the whites. The now familiar witch hunts begin: discrimination, forced removal of blacks to "homelands," detentions without trial and "racial classification" tests. What should be a period of progress becomes a harvest of sorrow and cruelty...
...success of the 1980 harvest is especially pleasant because the year began so poorly when the grain embargo temporarily disrupted commodity markets and drove prices down. The Federal Government was forced to buy up some 16.5 million metric tons of grain to stabilize prices...
...occupation of Afghanistan and ended with the threat of an invasion of Poland. In between came a plague of humiliations: outpourings of international protest over Afghanistan; a partial boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games; reports of brief but ominous incidents of labor unrest in Soviet factories; the second disastrous harvest in a row; new tensions with China; the collapse (at least temporarily) of arms control negotiations with the West; the election of a new American President whose rhetoric is explicitly anti-Soviet; and finally the Polish crisis, which posed the most serious challenge to the Soviet empire since World...