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...Pacific. As a stopgap remedy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service are moving GOES 6 to a more easterly position, where it will be able to monitor the continental U.S. and part of the Atlantic. The maneuver, which calls for a carefully choreographed pattern of propellant bursts, could take nearly three weeks...
...Marine attached to the American consulate in Leningrad. He was not seriously injured, but it was not the first such incident this year. In April, an unidentified youth attacked a U.S. consular officer on the street. Administration officials said last week that they were becoming annoyed at the "disturbing pattern of official involvement in a campaign to harass and isolate Americans in the Soviet Union...
...pattern their lyrics, both in language and imagery, on the speech used in most children's books. The songs usually consist of simple repetitions, or parallel sentence structures; and the phrasing of such lines as "What say you to me good woman?" suggests the formal, slightly archaic tone of a fairy tale. And phrases like "valley of the painted horse", and a character named "Rapture" come right out of the fantasy worlds created for and by children. Oh-Ok's lyrics may be simple, but they are certainly not straightforward. Rather, they prefer to make their songs fragmented and oblique...
...into lighthearted, ephemeral structures from which fabric waves. Thin, tubular balloons, some hundreds of feet long, sway in the air like giant streamers. Chain-link fences, essential for security, wear miles of fabric blazoned with Sussman's colors in stars and bars, as well as a special confetti pattern...
...senior Administration official claims that the affidavit represents "only one case" in a pattern of high-level Nicaraguan involvement in the cocaine trade going back more than a year. The U.S., he says, has substantial although still only circumstantial evidence linking two Sandinista Cabinet ministers to the drug traffic. But so far none of the evidence, which the U.S. says includes tape-recorded conversations and ground and satellite photographs, has been released...