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Over the next three years, the Navy sold about 16,500 goats to ranchers and stockyards. But 1,300 nimble and wily survivors retreated into a rugged, mountainous area that is full of live ordnance from target practice. In two short years, 1,300 fecund goats became more than 3,000, and the Navy decided to get rid of them by "selective shooting from a helicopter...
Campaigner Margaret Thatcher promised to cut taxes and reduce government spending. Prime Minister Thatcher last week began to live up to those promises. As Labor M.P.s in the House of Commons jeered, Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Geoffrey Howe, presented a tough new budget that was designed, he said, "to restore incentives and make it more worthwhile to work...
...Brussels. But the political heavyweights are already chafing about that idea. Brandt, for one, in an initial show of parliamentary independence, declared that the seat for the new Parliament is its own business, "just as it is the most basic right of any family to decide where to live...
...life through political metaphors, deplored his rightist politics. It was ordinary moviegoers who sensed the authenticity of the man-that compound of morality, short temper, self-humor and sheer physical energy. They knew that though he had never fired a gun in anger, he had found other ways to live up to his image...
Nabokov's high spirits and intellectual playfulness were both amusing and rankling to Wilson. The American's ideas about important literature leaned more toward social and political content than art for art's sake. Nabokov demurred, but his answer was not frivolous: "The longer I live the more I become convinced that the only thing that matters in literature is the (more or less irrational) shamanstvo of a book, i.e., that the good writer is first of all an enchanter...