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...good deal of success. So far this year ETA killings are down to 28, about half the 1980 rate. Last week the government announced the arrest of seven alleged ETA members in Vizcaya province and the seizure of substantial quantities of arms and ammunition. In an attempt to rebuild its popularity, the beleaguered ETA is now adopting the protest tactics of the Irish Republican Army: a group of 14 ETA prisoners last week launched a hunger strike...
...already declared that "we Socialists would never have signed this [nuclear] contract. At least not without a clearer idea of Iraqi intentions. And not without clearer guarantees that it could be used only for peaceful purposes." Paris would likely demand much tougher restrictions for the reactor if asked to rebuild...
Another threatened species, Homo sapiens, appears to be re-establishing itself as tenaciously as the lichens that grow on the mountain's rocks. A few people fled the area after last year's eruption, too nervous to stay or too stunned and depressed to rebuild their disrupted lives. A handful of local loggers and their families emigrated to Alaska to avoid having to live near the volcano. But most are making money cleaning up. Tom Henderson, a foreman of a team of loggers working to salvage what might be as much as $50 million worth of downed timber...
...best way to rebuild profits is for Detroit to produce the kind of cars that the American public wants. GM's new J-cars, a line of front-wheel-drive small autos, represent the strongest effort yet to attack the successful Japanese models. Said Robert Lund, the general manager of GM's Chevrolet division: "We're tired of hearing about how the domestic auto industry let the Japanese take the subcompact business away from us. The whole Chevrolet organization is spoiling for a fight...
...time when taxes are already painfully high, it will not be easy to raise money to rebuild roads, enlarge ports or repair bridges. But neither can the U.S. continue its past policy of "build it and forget it." The longer that needed restoration is postponed, the more costly it becomes. America cannot afford to starve vital parts of its infrastructure-that network of arteries that nourish the heart of the economy...