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While the Reagan Administration may have yielded a bit in the face of growing opposition to "constructive engagement," South Africa has not moved an inch. In Pretoria, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha restated his government's defiance of outside pressure. "South Africa will not allow itself to be dictated to by foreign elements, especially protesters and radical actions of pressure groups overseas," he declared. Said Executive President P.W. Botha: "South Africa will make its own decisions...
Diberardinis said replacement of old air ducts conducted during the evenings last week would have exposed and probably released a good deal of the half-inch thick fiberglass insulation that covered them...
Controversy over the dump began several years ago when testing during construction of the MBTA Alewife station revealed napthalene and soil so acidic it had to be removed for fear it would eat through the 18-inch thick concrete walls of the subway tunnel...
...their lives to studying the plant, the Tryons have traced it to some of the globe's more exotic regions and in the process have classified and experimented with many of the estimated 15,000 types, ranging from the 80-foot-high fern tree to the "deadly" one-inch bracken...
With a 500 cubic inch, V-8 engine, the car gets about 14 miles to the gallon on the highway and 13 in the city, he said. "It guzzles gas, but it's not as bad as we had feared...