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Shocked and sobered by the attempted coup, the country's political leaders sought to put aside some of their differences. They returned to the pock-marked chamber the following day and elected Calvo-Sotelo their new Prime Minister by an absolute 186-158 majority. That was 16 more votes than Calvo-Sotelo had expected to get in the earlier, rudely interrupted balloting. The Deputies also gave standing ovations to Suárez and Gutiérrez Mellado, both of whom had courageously stood up to Tejero. But the loudest applause was reserved for the King, who was praised...
...task, for Shawcross has seen the American system at its most perverted. Willie Shawcross went to Washington and to Phnom Penh as an outsider, trying to find out what the hell was going on. Eight years later Shawcross has seen the guts of our political system turned inside out, pock-marked by the Cambodian experience and the work of some not-so-moral men. Shawcross has gone back to Washington to produce a series of long articles on the current situation in Cambodia for The Post; "it's hard to walk away from Cambodia," he admits. But the endless work...
Last year Assmus flew over the state's backwoods to check out reports of clandestine pot farms. "We saw a whole lot more than we ever suspected," he recalls, flipping through color photos of half-acre patches that pock the hillsides. "It's all over the place." To escape detection, many weed farmers raise their plants on terrain owned by the government or the lumber companies. Rural police say they do not have the time or the money to chase after all the tiny plots in remote areas. Residents sympathize with the lawmen's plight and pay little heed...
Quite the reverse. The zone, in fact, teems with furred and feathered creatures. In a generation it has become one of Asia's premier wildlife sanctuaries. When the Korean War ended in 1953, the DMZ, once an area of wooded mountains and fertile farm land, was a wasteland pock-marked with bomb craters and shell holes. But in 25 years those scars have begun to heal. Abandoned rice terraces have turned into marshes, which are a favorite feeding ground for waterfowl. Old tank traps overgrown with weeds serve as cover for rabbits. Untamed thickets provide a refuge for herds...
...doing she left the nearby town of Hull a scarred battlefield. Until February 20, 13 days after the Blizzard of '78 had ended, army units were still blockading the two roads leading into the South Shore peninsula on which the town lies. Craters several feet in diameter pock marked the streets where sweeping tides had torn up the asphalt pavement...