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...corn, causing exportable rice stocks to plunge by 69%. Not even faraway Manila is immune: six major dams, the main source of the capital's water and electricity, may soon have to be closed down. As in other blighted areas, the physical wasteland has become a political minefield. President Marcos' wife Imelda perplexed compatriots in May by reportedly pressing the government into phasing out its $320 million U.S. food-assistance program. Citing her husband's ideal of "self-reliance through self-help," the First Lady declared: "There's no reason why the Philippines, which produces enough...
...work, austerity and loyalty to the "fatherland." His job now will be to translate those verities into a painful economic program that Kohl insists will lift the country out of its worst slump since World War II. At the same time, he must thread his way through a political minefield in supporting NATO's 1979 decision to install 572 U.S. cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe. Unless there is a breakthrough in U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations in Geneva, the installation is to start at the end of this year...
...shot by some of the villagers he tried to kill; seeing this, his Fascist father flies into a fatal jitterbug of despair, burrowing his head into the hard earth. Cecilia, at six the youngest of the fleeing villagers, finds the ordeal a delicious, dangerous game, like hopscotching through a minefield...
...embarrassing elegy begins. "Men like Clouseau never die," intones one mourner. "They're unique. They help us preserve our sense of humor." Not, alas, when we are invited to genuflect at the coffin. Better to recall the lively Sellers-Clouseau: facing every indignity with stoic fatuity, bulldogging through the minefield of his own ineptitude, working new variations on that preposterous French accent. What a shame we will never hear him say, "Eh Teh, pheune heume...
Vanserg's offices are uniquely responsible for the hall's bizarre character: they are strewn about the building with all the order of shrapnel in a minefield...