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...Prune Minister Bob Hawke, who inherited a multitude of economic woes upon taking office earlier this month, has so far offered no solutions except for a $435,000 short-term trial of cloud seeding. Yet the drought's consequences are seeping into every pore of his nation's welfare. Some areas are suffering 40% unemployment. One estimate predicts that the total loss to the nation may amount to $7.5 billion. Australia, which relies on agriculture for half its export earnings, may also find it difficult to regain the markets it is steadily losing. Lamented the national daily...
...more moderate forces were the leaders of Sri Lanka, Kenya, Pakistan, Singapore, Malaysia, Yugoslavia and Venezuela. Some demanded the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, a retreat of Vietnamese forces from Kampuchea, and the removal of all nuclear weapons from vessels and bases in the Indian Ocean. Said Malaysian Prune Minister Mahathir bin Mohammed: "The Soviet Union claims to champion the cause of the weak and the oppressed, but it had no hesitation about marching into Afghanistan to prop up an unpopular regime." Meanwhile, Cuba's Castro railed against "criminal Yankee imperialism" and new CIA plots to assassinate...
...international traveler, touching down in some parts of the Muslim world, knows from experience not to expect a belt or two before bed-or before leaving, for that matter. Thus, at the cocktail hour, glumly clutching a glass brimming with the essence of a prune, the businessman is cross but not shocked. The domestic drummer, however, always appears to be caught short-and made bewildered-when the journey pauses for an evening in an American anachronism, the dry county. After all, this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Prohibition, and yet here and there across...
...shared in the "indirect" responsibility for the deaths? Prune Minister Begin, said the commission, was "not a party to the decision to have Phalangists move into the camps." Nonetheless, it continued, he had displayed an "indifference" to the whole affair, and "for two days after the Prune Minister heard about the Phalangists' entry, he showed absolutely no interest in their actions in the camps." The commission concluded that Begin's "lack of involvement in the entire matter casts on him a certain degree of responsibility," but it did not recommend that he be obliged to step down as Prime Minister...
Warner likened the Defense Secretary's stance to that of the legendary Confederate general at the first battle of Manassas. Said he: "In Virginia we have a saying, 'There stands Jackson like a stone wall.' " When it came to finding defense programs to prune, the congressional confrontation was more like the Wilderness Campaign, with lots of smoke and fire but no clear targets. Senator John Tower of Texas, the hawkish chairman of the Armed Services Committee, highlighted the problem when he read a letter he had written inviting each Senator to submit a list "of any defense...