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...delegate would ideally-and intelligently-go equipped with: goggles (to protect the eyes from tear gas and Mace), cyclist's crash helmet (from billy clubs, bricks, etc.), flak jacket (from snipers), Vaseline (from Mace), Mace (from rioters), washcloth (from tear gas), bug bomb (to kill the flies that infest the amphitheatre from nearby stockyard dunghills), folding bicycle (there is a cab strike), roller skates (carpet tacks scattered on the streets by the demonstrators may decommission the bike), wire cutters (in case delegate is trapped inside the amphitheatre, or outside because of pickpocketed credentials), all-purpose bail-bond credit card...
...such bars as the "Country A Go-Go" (hillbilly music and rock) where they "jest set" and tip back straight shots of bourbon. Arguments start, fists and knives flail, blood is spilled. As one Appalachian woman complained recently, while her kids played games with the mice that infest her apartment, "Daddy's gone, and I'm tired of bein' a nobody, a nothin...
Whatever the direct cause of last week's bloodshed, the underlying malaise in Dixie Hills is obvious enough. Rats and roaches infest every building, plumbing is erratic, owners refuse to make repairs or even plant grass in the dusty, barren areas between buildings. Trash and garbage have been collected irregularly, gaping holes in the streets have gone unrepaired, and recreational facilities have been nonexistent. Most serious, more than half of the younger men are unemployed. "They just hang around the streets," says Richard Freeman, chairman of the board of aldermen's police committee. "The trouble is, nobody does...
...battery-powered headset. Taped to their ankles are smoke grenades, for use when the Tunnel Rats are ready to emerge, and want to avoid a bullet from a startled American's rifle. Another necessity: an aerosol bomb to attack the half-inch "fire ants" that often infest the tunnels...
...Cornell discovery was to raise some serious second thoughts about the preservation of food by radiation, a practice that is gradually gaining acceptance. Relatively heavy doses of radiation have been used to kill microorganisms that cause decay in food; lighter doses prevent potatoes from sprouting and kill insects that infest flour and cereals. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers the process safe enough to have cleared irradiated bacon, wheat and potatoes for public consumption, and the U.S. Army has already served some irradiated food in its mess halls. In Canada, the world's first private, commercial food-irradiation...