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...understandable, but Europeans in general, Washington feels, expect the U.S. to meet its NATO commitments as a matter of course, while never coming near to fulfilling their own obligations in the alliance. As one U.S. official told reporters last week: "For a long time NATO has been a 20-mule-team wagon, with one mule pulling and the others sitting in the wagon. It is time for them to get out and pull...
...feels, to be gin bridging the deadly gulf between Peru's haves and have-nots by develop ing the nation that lies beyond the cities and the factories. During his campaign, Belaúnde journeyed to the remote out back of eastern Peru by canoe and mule team; ever since, he has talked endlessly of the riches that lie away from the sea, beyond the Andes. To open up the area to farmers and livestock producers, he talks of a new $216 million highway with almost mystical fervor. Another ambition is to start communal self-help programs, following...
...fully prepared for the crises of the presidency-and no one should confuse "experience" with "endurance." To make his point, Ike recalls the words of Frederick the Great, who once answered a request to promote an officer simply because of his long service by pointing at a pack mule and saying, "That mule has carried that pack loyally and effectively for twelve years. But he's still a mule...
...about 9 ft. by 4 ft., were popular. They were not called prairie schooners. When deep rivers were encountered, the bottom of the boxes could be covered with canvas or hides; off came the wheels and the vehicle became a boat. On land, they were pulled by oxen or mules, mainly oxen, because an ox cost only $25, a mule $75. No horses. Too weak...
...three-star meals, with hot biscuits, fresh butter, honey, milk, cream, venison, wild peas, tea and coffee all included in a single typical dinner. Toward the other end, they ate rancid bacon, mountain sheep, red fox, and sometimes boiled hides. When they were dying of thirst, they drank mule urine. While 47 of the 87 members of the Donner Party were dying of hunger in 1846, there was some cannibalism. "What do you think I cooked this morning?" said Aunt Betsy Donner one day. "Shoemaker...