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...Angeles: 48,000 palm trees; 16,732 registered poodles; 3,672 traffic lights; 46,000 acres still in cropland. Everything seems larger in Los Angeles. It is the biggest fishing port in America. It leads the U.S. in per capita sales of bottled water. The cities of Washington, Detroit, Denver, Boston, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Providence combined would fit within the boundaries of the Los Angeles Unified School District...
...strike was settled not by artful negotiation but by an eruption of hot-tempered fury. As the walkout by Britain's 17,700 dock workers dragged into its second week, the truck drivers stuck at the port of Dover grew surlier. By late last week the motorway snaking through the tranquil Kent countryside had burgeoned into a five-mile parking lot, replete with the bellow of air horns and the whiff of rotting fruit destined never to reach its market. The curses grew saltier, the threats louder. Finally, an ultimatum came from the madding crowd: open the port...
Says Brooklyn native Andrew I Port. "I just walk around Harvard Square and try to look weird...
...Cuba since taking office. On the agenda at a New York City meeting: resumption of talks, stalled early in 1981, concerning the return of some 1,000 criminals and mentally ill individuals who were among the 125,000 refugees who arrived in a 1980 boat lift from the Cuban port of Mariel. Havana wants to discuss U.S. acceptance of up to 15,000 Cubans who have Fidel Castro's permission to emigrate...
That favorable result led to the first shipment four months ago of 500 prime Iowa breeding pigs, among them Hampshires and white Yorkshires, to pens outside the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. Although they are now thriving in their roofed stys, nobody knows if these pampered replacement hogs will prosper or even survive the harsh life of their new homeland. The imported pigs were eating such food as wheat shorts and soya supplemented by vitamins and minerals, and drinking water from taps-all luxuries unknown to most Haitians, much less the old black hogs. Once the island is declared...