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...BARACK OBAMA: Well, I was just thinking how lavish it is, although it is an old plane, so the shocks are still a little shaky - you'll hear it when we land...
...period. In a speech before Parliament announcing the new state of emergency, State President Botha justified its nationwide scope by charging that the ''radical and revolutionary elements'' planning the Soweto commemoration ''pose a real danger for all population groups in our country.'' Said he: ''The ordinary laws of the land are inadequate to ensure the security of the public and to maintain public order...
...cutting the limit on strategic warheads from the 3,600 they previously proposed, the Soviets now want to include all cruise missiles in the total and set the ceiling at 8,000. Since the U.S. is first and foremost interested in slashing the number of warheads deployed on big land-based missiles, which form the backbone of Moscow's threatening arsenal, this aspect of the Soviet plan is likely to present a problem...
...Persian Gulf and of changing the approach to fighting Islam's enemies. "[Bin Laden] said we must carry out painful attacks on the United States until it becomes like an agitated bull, and when the bull comes to our region, he won't be familiar with the land, but we will," al-Bahri told...
...pain since large numbers of jellyfish were first sighted along France's coast in June. And those menacing the shorelines are simply the outriders of giant shoals that marine biologists have identified hovering between Corsica and France's southern shores. Sections of that invertebrate mother ship are blown to land by unpredictable shifting winds that can turn coastal water into jellyfish marshes overnight - and then leave the same area virtually stinger-free the following day. A large part of the current jellyfish scare is that swimmers rarely know whether the water into which they're wading is benign Mediterranean surf...