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...latest in a long line of weapons-purchasing decisions that illustrate how members of Congress, by looking after their own districts, can quietly add a layer of fat to the military budget- even as they are deploring excessive defense spending. The A-10 is often referred to as "Joseph Addabbo's plane," after the Democratic Congressman from Queens, N.Y.; his district is near the Long Island plant where the fighter is made by Fairchild Republic Co. Addabbo, chairman of the Defense Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, opposes such big-ticket military items as the B-l bomber...
...with feathers, and so it develops on Zenkali. If Osbert gets his way, the Mockery Bird really will die out, and with it the island. For, in a chain of interdependence as outlandish as nature itself, the Mockeries feed on the fruit of the Ombu tree, remove its outer layer and allow the seed to germinate. The tree grows, plays host to a moth that fertilizes the Amela tree-upon which the island's economy depends. Will the London plutocrats get their way? Will Zenkali perish? Will Peter entice Audrey into his sleeping...
...addition, the blue sky and open spaces that attracted the area's pioneers 25 years ago are now becoming obscured by industrial parks and a thin layer of smog. Crime is on the rise. The theft of computers and semiconductors has become an estimated $20 million-a-year problem. Housing is scarce and expensive. The price of an average home in Santa Clara County...
...Idaho, there was concern about the prospect of warm chinook winds, which could thaw the state's flood-high but now frozen rivers. Boise, Idaho, wedged in a valley, had half a foot of snow and subzero temperatures, but the most worrisome weather anomaly was a fetid "inversion layer" of smog that blanketed the city. Low temperatures and a dearth of forest forage, Utah wildlife officials say, accounted for the unusual number of deer that were seen roaming cold and hungry through the streets of Salt Lake City...
...natural gas pipeline between the Soviet Union and Western Europe that will supply the EEC with 20 per cent of its annual gas needs while creating numerous jobs. Europeans will go to great lengths to get their gas, making Reagan's ban on the export of Caterpillar pipe-layer equipment virtually meaningless...