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...life. You can demonstrate, or try to, that it is still possible to lead a reasonably normal existence without giving way to fear or fury, that it is still possible to raise children, given some luck, without turning them into implacable enemies. You can help to maintain and replenish the precious reserves of tolerance, if only with a quiet word here, a small action there. That may seem desperately inadequate against the fanaticism of both left and right, but the sum of many such words and actions may eventually sway the balance between reason and unreason. You can, above...
...commander of the Hukbalahap agrarian rebel movement in the Philippines; by gunfire when he was waylaid by an army unit; in Angeles, near Clark airbase. A relative of Luis Taruc, rebel leader who surrendered to President Ramon Magsaysay in 1954, Taruc led the Huks since 1964, but failed to replenish their dwindling numbers. His death destroys the guerrilla threat to the government of President Ferdinand Marcos...
...Pomona and San Mateo. Elsewhere, it is pumped into lakes for storage and recreation use, as in Santee and Alpine, Calif. In Washington, D.C., water reclaimed at the Blue Plains plant goes back into the seriously polluted Potomac River. In Nassau County, N.Y., it may be used to replenish underground reservoirs. Eventually, all this reclaimed water finds its way to the household tap. By then, its source has been well disguised, and like so much of the U.S.'s potable water, it is contaminated with pesticides...
...BOSTON- The Red Cross warned that the supply of blood in Massachusetts is dangerously low. The Red Cross plans emergency blood donor operations this weekend to replenish the state's supply, which has dwindled to 347 pints...
...that had been killed by DDT. The geckos, in turn, were devoured by local cats. Unhappily, the cats perished in such large numbers from DDT poisoning that the rats they once kept in check began overrunning whole villages. Alarmed by the threat of plague, WHO officials were forced to replenish Borneo's supply of cats by parachute...