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...Arafat); the delegation never arrived. In what was apparently the result of a bald attempt to embarrass Sadat, the rubber dinghy used by the fedayeen at Tel Aviv last week carried a marking, "Egyptian Army Seamen," and its lone survivor at first insisted that he had set out from Port Said. (He later admitted that the party embarked from Lebanon.) Sadat must be cautious at a time when much of the Arab world is applauding the "heroism" of the fedayeen foray on Tel Aviv...
Chisso's trouble began in 1950 after it opened in the fishing port of Minamata an acetaldehyde factory that began to discharge effluents into Minamata Bay. One of the waste substances: a highly toxic methyl mercury compound that was passed up the food chain from tiny organisms to small fish to the larger fish that comprise a substantial part of the townspeople's diet. By 1953 the mercury contamination had reached a dangerous level in some people, who began to suffer the crippling symptoms of what is now referred to as Minamata disease. Howling in pain and racked...
Home Again. One of the few telling and truthful moments in the film occurs during a press conference in Port Arthur, Texas, the home town Joplin despised and always tried to conquer. On this occasion, Joplin had returned for her tenth high school reunion ("They laughed me out of the state," she announced on a Dick Cavett show, "and now I'm goin' back"). The questions the local press cooked up were trite-was Janis happy in school? Did she get in vited to the prom? But her answers, out of the direct pressures of the circumstances, were...
Washington lifted its decade-old arms embargo on Pakistan, paving the way for Islamabad to buy antitank and anti aircraft missiles, as well as multipurpose fighter-bombers, on a cash basis. In return, there is speculation that Pakistan may give the U.S. a naval base at the Arabian Sea port of Gwador...
...Zurich. His intransigence grew with time, ripening into the melancholy sarcasm that was one of his more noted traits. "He is everything in extremes-always an original," wrote Fuseli's close friend, the physiognomist Lavater. "His look is lightning, his word a thunderstorm; his jest is NATIONAL PORT death, his revenge hell." Even Goethe, who met Fuseli in Rome in 1775, agreed with that. "What fire and fury the man has in him!" he exclaimed in a letter...