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Whether Israel's opposition Labor Party succeeds in recapturing power from Menachem Begin's Likud government depends very much on the performance in the next seven weeks of a low-keyed and surprisingly mild-mannered veteran political infighter: Shimon Peres, 57, a longtime political organizer who has been at the heart of the Labor organization for 30 years. Only five months ago, Peres defended his leadership against a challenge by former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, with whom he had feuded bitterly-and publicly-for years. Since then he has spent almost all of his energies trying to repair...
Cocaine, one of the most popular and most expensive illicit drugs sold in the U.S., derives from the coca plant which grows mainly in Peru and Bolivia. For centuries, highland Indians have chewed leaves of the coca plant as a mild stimulant, to stave off hunger and drowsiness. Although this use continues, Bolivia now produces four times more coca leaf than can be consumed locally...
...consecutive "skunk winters," when temperatures were so mild that sick animals were not killed off quickly by the cold, are being blamed for the proliferation of rabid animals. But at least part of the problem is that packs of dogs now prowl the roads of an area near Cairo, Ill., known as Little Egypt. Many animals have been abandoned by their owners, often University of Southern Illinois students from Carbondale who simply turn their pets loose when the school year ends. Other pack members are house dogs allowed to go unleashed. In Royalton, Amy Imhoff, 6, was savagely bitten...
...talked about the Texas talk shows. "So mild it'll scare you," he said. "I went on it a few times from Florida and it's a cakewalk." He talked about the plush new clubhouse in Arlington Stadium. "They're beautiful, carpeting this thick," he said, holding up fingers three inches apart. "It's almost a shame to wear your spikes in there." Tough to get the players out on the field?" he was asked. "Not easy," said Zimmer...
...Peres supporters had hoped that a sign of new strength might emerge from the appointment of Labor shadow cabinet members last week. But it was not to be. Peres picked a Labor stalwart like Haim Bar-Lev as shadow Defense Minister, but his choice as shadow Finance Minister was mild-mannered Haim Ben-Shahar, president of Tel Aviv University. Ben-Shahar is a respected economist but is considered no match for Aridor in the political arena...