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...powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, detonated over Boston would destroy everything within a four-mile radius. Up to ten miles away from ground zero, fire storms would devastate all buildings and trees. Of the 3 million inhabitants of metropolitan Boston, 2.2 million would be killed outright. Almost every survivor would be maimed, burned or in shock. Of the 6,000 physicians in the area, only 900 would be fit enough to treat the injured. In time, survivors would develop new and virtually incurable ailments, such as severe radiation poisoning and reactions to contaminated food and water...
...palpable foreshadowing of Reagan's foreign policy, Kirkpatrick said recently that she believes the U.S. should continue to provide military aid to El Salvador, where in the past month seven Americans have been murdered--with the tacit condoning if not outright participation of the rightist government's continued aid for the El Salvador regime in the face of the unrelieved political repression and economic exploitation there is bad enough; with the views of Kirkpatrick put into practice under a Reagan administration, this senseless approach is likely to be duplicated across the globe...
Michael Capuano, legal counsel to the House Taxation Committee, said yesterday he knows of no bill to repeal the tax-cutting Proposition 2 1/2 outright, but that all sorts of amendments have been proposed...
...England is about 15 years ahead of us in going down that road of intervention and outright nationalization of industries. I think Prime Minister Thatcher has a monumental task...
...helplessly beholden to Eastern tariffs, Eastern financial institutions and a Parliament dominated by Ontario and Quebec. Then, the West struck oil. All of a sudden, it found itself awash in energy, profits and power. This inevitably led to an East-West struggle. Last week it erupted into an outright tax revolt as the West balked at new federal excise levies on all natural gas sales...