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...earthquakes set off severe flooding and mud slides in the highlands above the town of Lago Agrio, 150 miles northeast of Quito. A wall of mud and water careered eastward along the channel of the Aguarico River, sweeping away everything in its path. Entire villages, along with bridges, roads and crowded buses, were buried in thousands of tons of mud. The deluge left as many as 110,000 people homeless...
...disaster brought the country's reeling economy to its knees. Mud slides destroyed 25 miles of Ecuador's vital oil pipeline, which begins at Lago Agrio and travels 340 miles through the Andes to the Pacific port of Balao. The rupture forced the suspension of oil exports, which in recent years have accounted for 60% of the country's export earnings. Already hard hit by falling prices of crude oil, in the wake of the earthquakes Ecuador suspended all payments on its $8.2 billion foreign debt for the rest of this year. Febres Cordero said he took the action "without...
While it may have been mud for Cambridge, there was joy in Springfield...
...done in the present case. President Reagan has admitted the mistakes, is willing to punish or replace those who have overstepped their bounds and has set changes in motion to restrict the power of the NSC. It is time now to begin to move on. Wallowing in the political mud of impeachment proceedings for the next 23 months would bring the nation to a standstill. Republicans and Democratics like realize that there are many problems that must be trackled--welfare reform, the deficit, and arms control to name a few. The editorial asks us to "endure the pain...
...problem is the matter of matter--fecal matter to be precise. The recent warm weather (anything would be warm compared to the arctic temps we had in early February) has caused much of the frozen tundra across the quad to melt. Melting snow obviously produces mud. But it uncovers something else, which is much harder to scrape off your shoes, and smells absolutely awful, whether you walk...