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...malt like Auchentoshan is a wholly different taste experience from Laphroaig, one of the tangy, medicinal whiskies produced on the isle of Islay (pronounced EYE-la). Part of the appeal of these whiskies, in fact, is their craggy names. Once you've learned how to pronounce it, who can resist ordering a dram of Bunnahabhain? (Try Bu-na-HA-ven.) Worldwide, the single- malt sales leader is Glenfiddich, owned by William Grant & Sons, but in the U.S. it runs a distant second to the Glenlivet, produced by Scotland's oldest licensed distillery (1824) and a shrewd purchase by Seagram...
Geer added that once the final Environmental Impact Report on the project is issued later this month, residents will have only about three weeks to comment on its conclusions, giving them little time to resist the plan...
...Plans to resist the U.S. invasion had called for the P.D.F. to break up into small groups and conduct a guerrilla war. But Noriega from the first was too intent on saving his own skin to give his followers any direction. Shortly before the invasion, U.S. intelligence claims to have sighted Noriega at an officers' club at the international airport. Noriega, however, had an advance intimation of the attack. As an old intelligence operative, he could hardly have missed the cargo planes ferrying troops and equipment into American military bases. He took off for five days of scuttling around Panama...
Endara will have to establish his legitimate claim to the Panamanian presidency over Francisco Rodriguez, whom Noriega picked after calling off the election last May. Rodriguez urged Panamanians to resist the U.S. troops, then disappeared. Endara had little international support last week, except from the U.S. Neither the United Nations nor the Organization of American States would accept his ambassadors...
...topic of letters to the editor, I cannot resist quoting from Jean Paul Sartre's response to a letter to the editor written by Albert Camus...