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...bagpiper; and County-cork born Beijing local Shane O'Neill, whose leprechaun costume purchased at a Dublin shop came complete with a false belly. The trailing marchers included members of the Dublin Youth Orchestra, the local youth Irish dance troupe "The Celtic Dragons," and the chorus from the Bai Nian Vocational School, a free school that serves the children of migrant workers and to which the Irish embassy has donated a language lab. Bedecked in green, orange, and violet, giddy participants proudly carried the flags of either country. On the apples of their cheeks, most marchers wore the three-leaf...
...park, give him fresh fruits to eat. This has been no life for him, and I feel guilty for it." His wife Snezana is a Serb from Belgrade, and she was offered the chance to escape several times, but she did not want to abandon her husband, a Bos nian Muslim, who had to fight in the army. They decided to leave together or not at all. "I have spent the happiest years of my life with Cazim," Snezana said, "and I was afraid of losing our love if I left." After the air raids, she actually let herself imagine...
...combination, the arrangements as-,ure that no defense supplier will suffer out-of-pocket losses as a result of the Ira nian cutbacks. On the other hand, the potential loss of Iran as a market for U.S. arms sales means that weapons makers will have to look elsewhere for business, and that raises the prospect of some potentially explosive competition for customers in the 1980s...
...planet is willed into being by a group of scientists, artists and philosophers. One of the instruments of the creation is an encyclopedia that they compile to cover every aspect of Tlön's existence. The entries and extrapolations are so logical and convincing that Tlönian artifacts start showing up on Earth...
Ceausescu, on his part, will ask for better U.S. trade conditions for Ruma nian goods and more private American investment. He will undoubtedly reiter ate his familiar argument that both NATO and the Warsaw Pact should be dismantled simultaneously as a major move toward breaking down the barriers between the East and West blocs. Discreetly, he may also sound out the President on what U.S. reaction might be if the Russians ever tried a Czechoslovak-style power play against Rumania...