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...even lower unless Turkey shows greater willingness to force its farmers out of the profitable business of growing poppies for opium and heroin. Natural disasters have worsened the turmoil. An earthquake this year killed 1,087 people and caused more than $100 million damage. Turkey's wheat harvest is a disaster because of drought and flooding. Says Tarik Zafer Tunaya, professor of political science at Istanbul University: "Turkey is a field on which gasoline has been poured. Watch your cigarette...
...Reckless Harvest. Even worse, quotas for the rich Antarctic waters continue to be based on the average amount of oil in a blue whale. Blues are the largest whales, often growing to 100 ft. in length and weighing 150 tons. Each contains as much oil as two fin whales, 2½ humpback whales or six sei whales. The net effect of measuring quotas in oil rather than individual species is that whaling expeditions kill everything that spouts; even the smallest whale has value. This year's Antarctic quota of 2,700 "blue-whale units" will cause more little whales...
Curious Drive. According to O'Leary, the Apollo moon harvest has been badly handled scientifically and has produced scandalously meager results. Yet as a scientist, O'Leary still champions a space program. "Space," he asserts, "is as cheap as six weeks' fighting in Viet Nam, cheaper than deploying a useless anti-ballistic missile system, and [it consumes] less than 5% of the present annual defense budget...
...tanks and armored half-tracks clattered across the Lebanese border toward guerrilla strongholds. The Israeli troops encountered little resistance at first and quickly entered six villages near the Hasbani River. The soldiers gave villagers leaflets with a pointed verse from an old Arab poem: "Whoever sows thorns will not harvest grapes and whosoever lights fires is likely to get burned...
Stodgy Bachelor. Balaguer, who revised the constitution so that he could seek re-election to a second four-year term, spent the last weeks of the campaign barnstorming the countryside, where he was particularly strong. Though unemployment hovers around 30%, this year's harvest is a good one, assuring Balaguer of continuing strength among the wealthy landowners as well as the peasants, who historically have gone along with "the boss"-the man in power...