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...pool was evacuated at 10:30 yesterday when the discolored water began pouring in through a pipe that normally pumps fresh water to the pool...
Since the Chao Phraya's waters are committed to the irrigation of farm land, Bangkok will have to pipe in its water supply from a river some 60 miles to the west...
...crucial change in Black voter apathy is no pipe dream. In 1982 voter apathy commenced its death march, as Black voter turnout hit 43 percent compared to 37 percent in 1978 off-year elections. This percentage increase was twice that of white voter turnout, producing a massive closure of the Black/white voting gap to 7 percent--an historic low. What is more, for the first time in this century Black voter turnout is now greater than white turnout in nine states...
...Soviet downing of Korean Airlines flight 007, though no one in the White House would ever put it so bluntly. In recent weeks the President had gone against his own instincts by signing a long term grain deal with Moscow, lifting a ban on the sale of caterpillar pipe-layer equipment, and agreeing to initial a treaty on security and human rights negotiated in Madrid...
Today, at 80, retired from writing fiction, Simenon lives in a Swiss retreat with one of his former household maids. Popular fancy has tended to see him as the model for the benign, pipe-smoking Maigret, but Bresler maintains that the only connection is wish fulfillment. Maigret, with his equanimity, his intuitive sympathy for others, his fidelity to one woman, is the man that Simenon never could be. Less plausibly, Bresler attributes Simenon's "stunted sexuality" to his rejection by, and rebellion against, the formidably dour widowed mother he left behind in Liège. (When Simenon...