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...helicopter swooped over the horizon of Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest, technicians on board directed the aerial spraying of selected plots of illicit greenery. Camera crews dutifully recorded the 20-min. operation. It was, said the Drug Enforcement Administration proudly, the first-ever aerial use of the potent weed killer paraquat on domestic marijuana fields. A White House spokesman hinted that similar airborne anti-pot hits might be staged this year in as many as 39 other states...
...contrast to his flashy and intellectually potent predecessors, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, Clark regards his role as that of an expediter of policy rather than an implementer. He says he relies on instinct and consensus in a job Kissinger called "the most exciting and dangerous in Government." Clark has won praise for his ability to prod a slow-moving bureaucracy and get decisions on track. Impatient and eager to please his boss with quick results, Clark sometimes acts without fully weighing the consequences, as he did when he allowed the fleet to set out for Central America...
Though not even Jackson expects a black bid in 1984 to lead to the Oval Office, it makes a certain amount of tactical sense. Blacks have been trooping to voting booths in growing numbers, making them a potent factor in the choice of the next President. The new clout was manifest in the recent wins of Harold Washington in the Chicago mayoral race and W. Wilson Goode in the Philadelphia Democratic mayoral primary. These heady successes have spurred blacks, who vote Democratic 9 to 1 and routinely represent from 20% to 25% of the Democratic bloc in national elections...
...city's Latin population. The Herald is the only large metropolitan newspaper in the country to publish a daily Spanish edition (circ. 66,000). There are two Latin columnists and 40 staff members, including a member of the editorial board, to help cover the city's politically potent Cuban community. Nevertheless, assimilation is hardly complete: top management is still clubby, male and "Anglo...
According to Barzini's saline account, one of Britain's most potent gifts to Europe was the black suit, a Continental uniform during the 19th century. This austere garment symbolized the qualities of sobriety, decency and steadiness that, along with those prodigious coal mines, allowed Britain to dominate the world for decades. The dark myth of British superiority persisted long after the country's decline, and led Britain in the 1950s to a disastrous delay in condescending to join the Common Market...