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Some especially noxious examples: Tennessee Republican Robin Beard ran a TV commercial in which a Fidel Castro look-alike delightedly lit a cigar with a $100 bill and intoned: "Muchissimas gracias, Senor Sasser." The false implication was that Beard's opponent, Democratic Senator Jim Sasser, had voted for foreign aid appropriations that had somehow benefited Communist Cuba. In California, Republican Peter Cost, a candidate for the state assembly, showed a TV spot in which three actors dressed up to look like especially vicious convicts sat around in a jail cell and praised Cost's opponent, Democrat Sam Farr...
...young Shanghai laboratory technician was recently denied a promotion because, he was told, "you have violated the rules governing contact with foreigners." The technician had failed to report associating with a foreign friend to the lab's security department. For foreigners, too, the new restrictions have been noxious and unsettling. "You never know," says one diplomat, "when simply inviting a Chinese over to your house for an innocent lunch could get him into difficulties for the rest of his life...
...pollution control more than pays for itself in health cost savings. And the idea that local authorities could effectively regulate waste disposal is absurd, it seems none of those who militate for relaxed standards are aware that the wind blows and the rivers run, spreading pollution from one noxious pipe or smokestack all over the country. It is for just these sorts of problems that we have a federal government...
...trouble in anything. He was always very faithful and loyal." In another television program, D'Aubuisson used charts explaining how Marxists take over a country and suggesting Christian Democrat complicity in El Salvador's subversion. Said D'Aubuisson: "We are at the mercy of these noxious people...
...much repeated piece of West Texas lore has it that mesquite traveled up from Mexico a century or two ago in the droppings of pack animals. This seems to be false, an effort possibly to blame the noxious plant on foreign influences (a Mexican might point out that in Texas, it was the Anglos who were the foreigners). Mesquite evidently is a native, but drought and overgrazing of the land apparently have encouraged it to spread until it has become an epidemic. Years ago, the Indians of the Southwest lived happily with the stuff. They used mesquite for fuel, shade...