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...Southwest, five lives have been claimed so far by the swift Colorado River, which is sluicing over dikes, sandbag barriers and splashboards. William Wert was on a raft excursion with 14 other vacationers shooting the Grand Canyon's Crystal Rapids when the 33-ft. rubber raft flipped; all passengers except Wert made it to shore. Farther downstream on the 1,450-mile river, in Mexico, four people drowned. "We cannot blame the Americans," said Francisco Gonzales, deputy police chief of the town of Luis B. Sanchez. "They did not make the rain and snow that are causing the river...
...emptive attack is nearly impossible as long as the Soviets can "beat" any system by adding great numbers of warheads and barraging U.S. targets. Even if a theoretically unbeatable system could be devised, and that is highly doubtful, it would be obstructed, as Dense Pack is, by a whole raft of political problems. For one, the cost of such a scheme would probably be prohibitive. It is as though the nation were being asked to buy an extremely expensive insurance policy with very small print warning that it might never pay off. For another, most members of Congress are sure...
...rubble and babble of his homeland; none of his nine fiction features is wholly set there. Instead, he is drawn to legends and nightmares. In Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973), a Spanish officer of the 16th century dreams of conquering South America and ends up alone on a raft, blithe and demented, lording it over some monkeys. In The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (1975), a young man appears in a Nuremberg square in the 1820s, with no recollection of his past; the townspeople attempt to "civilize" Kaspar, treating him as their pet, their lab rat, their ignorant savior...
...Antarctic, during which they performed scientific experiments for various organizations and ran a charter boat service to the South Pacific (several team members, including Burton, also got married), Transglobe proceeded by ship toward its next destination, the North Pole. Fiennes and Burton navigated the Yukon River by motorized rubber raft, sailed 3,000 miles along the Northwest Passage in the whaler and camped for the four-month Arctic night at Ellesmere Island. They reached the North Pole by snowmobile just before midnight last April 10 and celebrated with well-chilled champagne and a chocolate Easter...
...sweetness and light in Philadelphia, many party leaders are uneasy. In an attempt to project a united front, the conference approved a raft of bland policy positions that will win few converts to the Democratic cause. Aside from a resolution simplifying the income tax system, the platform is a model of artful dodges and hedges. "There seems to be a feeling that our good spirits and Reagan's problems will be enough, but they are not," observed Congressman Leon Panetta of California. "We've got to come up with bold new alternatives...