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...Beloveds, the disco is closed from today on," reads a red lettered sign taped on the door of Zorba the Buddha Disco and Casino. Every day, buses and cars crammed with bicycles, stereos and followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh pull away from the main gate of the guru's now defunct commune in the remote hills of Oregon. Since the Rajneesh pleaded guilty to a federal charge of immigration violation and departed last month for India, after firing a bitter parting shot at the U.S. ("I never want to return"), his 1,300 disciples have been scattering like college...
...reduction and Pentagon cost cutting, there is growing resistance in Congress to funding SDI. Says New York's Democratic Senator Daniel Moynihan: "Our leverage over the Russians with this program is considerable until that day when they figure out that they can sit back and wait for us to pull the plug on it. It is a great bargaining chip until it becomes a great white elephant...
...space shuttle to carry out a demonstration of a laser weapon in the next year, "we may have pushed ourselves beyond a point of no return with the Soviets so that they'll start acting as though we have such a system. Instead of concentrating on diplomacy, they'll pull out the stops in their military programs to counter the defenses they will expect us to have...
This makes Hart a reformist liberal, a venerable, once honorable political label. Admittedly both ends of the term have poor p.r. value nowadays. Perhaps he does need a better handle. But what is the pull of the future? It sounds good--for about ten minutes. Even in 1984, voters quickly grew cynical about it and its companion, "new ideas...
...Another tale allegedly involves a fat man with a history of coronary disease who suffered a heart attack while trying to start a Sears lawn mower, sued Sears and the manufacturer, contending that too much force was required to pull the rope, and won $1,750,000. The real story, the trial lawyers point out, is that a 32-year-old doctor, who had no history of heart trouble, fell victim to a heart attack after futilely yanking the lawn mower's starter cord 15 times. A Philadelphia jury found that the mower's exhaust valve failed to meet...