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Czechoslovak army units yesterday began pulling down barbed wire fencing along a 20-mile stretch of its border with Austria. After the first stretch of the fence was cut away and rolled up, officials from both countries met on the open border near the Austrian town of Wullowitz to shake hands...
...most of the former have given the latter scant thought. For a brief moment ten years ago, we geared up to argue that one of the reasons why nuclear power is desirable is that it is safer and cleaner than coal, gas and oil. We were right. But Three Mile Island made the issue politically moot, and we've barely been heard from since. We can save elephants more effectively than liberals can. We also have to show that we can, for in an increasingly Green-conscious world, if we don't go down to the seas again...
...them can still be spotted spouting in the oceans of the world. Seymour Simon's nonfiction * Whales (Crowell; $14.95) follows their astonishing life cycle as the babies drink 100 gal. of milk a day, breathe through a hole in the top of their heads, learn to dive a mile deep, and eventually become so immense that their tongues can weigh as much as a full-grown elephant. The leviathans seem fantastic, but 20 detailed photographs of the endangered species show that big is beautiful -- and actual...
...preservation, and some have already been set aside as historic landmarks by local and state agencies. "Many of the things that were taken for granted in the 19th century -- factories, mills, neighborhoods -- people now want to save," says Chester H. Liebs, historian and author of Main Street to Miracle Mile. "The same thing is going to happen to this century...
...controlled bomb, hidden in a shuttered shop, exploded as his motorcade passed by after ceremonies marking the 46th anniversary of Lebanon's independence. The estimated 550 lbs. of explosives tore trees out by their roots, hurled the engine block of Moawad's armored Mercedes 50 yards, shattered windows a mile away and raised a cloud of brown smoke over the city. In all, 24 people, including nine civilians, were killed and 36 wounded. "The whole shop was a bomb," said a Lebanese army intelligence officer...